Iraq War
- Obama reduced troops from a peak of 170,000 down to 50,000, with the remaining troops focused on training and recruiting Iraqi forces, rather than participating in combat.
- With this news, Obama delivered on a campaign promise he made while bringing to an end a misguided, expensive, and costly war which served no clear purpose.
- Iraq has improved slightly as it once was at the peak of the insurgency and stands a chance of having a reasonable future and being a reasonably stable Democratic state in the Middle East.