Is US winning the war in Iraq?

The reality could be different - answer may be "Yes"! If you think US wanted to achieve a successful division between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, US is certainly winning the war. History has seen many wars where the winner's strategy was to divide the enemy.

US successfully created a war ground in Iraq when it didn't know where to fight its enemies. Afghanistan wasn't a good war ground - enemies of US just flew out from there (or at least it appeared so). US said, we will fight them in their land so that they don't come to US. Great strategy! However, where is 'their' land? Where is the battlefield? Well, Iraq served as one.

WMD was a facade. Getting Saddam was a by-product. Oil? Well, there is always that. But most importantly, you can't fight an enemy when they are scattered all over the world. You can't fight something that you don't know. Get them in the shooting range to shoot them! Iraq was the shooting range.

What we see today in Iraq is a division and a divided enemy. It might be appearing that US is losing out on the goal of establishing democracy in middle east. What if the real goal wasn't that?

Don't get me wrong here. I don't support killing innocent people. I am just an interested observer of global affairs. I took great pain by attacks on WTC as well as attacks on Indian parliament. It hurt me when the bombs blasted both in London and in Mumbai. It also hurt me when innocent people got killed in Lebanon. I always wished if at all Mahatma Gandhi was present there.

It really gets me wondering sometime what was the objective of war in Iraq? Goal of achieving a divided enemy seems like one of the strongest goals US had right from the beginning.