What the US Army says that war is a bad idea, you should probably listen.
Army
War College Study Blasts U.S. War on Terrorism
By Will Dunham
“WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Iraq (news – web sites) invasion was ‘an unnecessary
preventive war of choice’ that has robbed resources and attention from the
more critical fight against al Qaeda in a hopeless U.S. quest for absolute security,
according to a study recently published by the U.S. Army War College.”