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Date: 2007-11-09 06:11 pm (UTC)No.
A decent mission is one in which clear objectives are married to the means by which to achieve them. There were no clear objectives in our assault on Iraq. "Overthrow Saddam and we will be treated as liberators. There is no plan B." Our means were so far from sufficient as to cost us more lives than was at all reasonable. By every measure-- economic, moral, human-- this was not a decent mission.
We had a decent mission: destroy al-Qaeda's base of operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and punish its allies the Taliban sufficiently that they would not bedevil us for another generation. We had the means by which this could be accomplished. We failed in our decent mission because of the distraction of Iraq.