Abstract
America’s long military involvement in Iraq has changed both the face of the Middle East and the future of U.S. foreign policy in the region. President Barack Obama’s August 2, 2010, speech to disabled U.S. veterans—delivered 20 years to the day after Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait placed the United States and Iraq on a collision course—marked another important milestone: at long last, the United States was on its way out of Iraq. By the end of August 2010, the president proclaimed, America’s combat mission in Iraq would come to an end, “as promised and on schedule.” Only 50,000 troops would remain in Iraq for another 16 months to advise and assist the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF), down from 144,000 when Obama took office.1
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