He said of the five wars, the US has won just one them!
Yesterday on the Daily Show, he disputed the right-wing claim that the United States is winning in Iraq:
STEWART: What’s our record in these five wars? […]
ENGEL: Maybe we’re 1-4.
STEWART: We’re 1-4 now. What are the five wars?
ENGEL: The shock and awe — the invasion. Then the nation-building phase, which had mixed results, dissolving the Iraqi army. Then an insurgency, then a civil war, then the surge, where violence has gone down dramatically. We’re about to face a sixth war — the exit strategy — and we have to figure out how to make that one a success.
He also said although the surge is strategically working militarily, “the larger strategic question of stability in Iraq is one that is still unresolved.”
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