What Can President Obama Take Credit For In Iraq?

Can Obama Take Credit For Ending The Iraq War Without Taking Blame For What Happens Next? -- Peter Feaver, The Diplomat

Talk to a certain kind of Obama supporter about Iraq - as I do often - and you will encounter a curious line of thinking that goes something like this:

President Obama deserves tremendous credit for keeping a promise and ending the war in Iraq. The departure this month of the last major military units marked a heroic turn in the war -- heroic not for the troops, perhaps, but for the policymakers who had the foresight to end U.S. involvement in a foolish war of choice. Well, not end U.S. involvement, since the largest State Department footprint in the world remains in Iraq, to be guarded by the largest private security force the State Department has ever attempted to manage. But still the war is ending and for this "campaign promise kept" President Obama has earned the admiration of his boosters.

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My Comment: If Iraq unravels and civil war returns .... President Obama will have problems in defending his policy decisions. But in this election cycle .... the big problem for President Obama will not be Iraq .... a conflict that the majority of Americans are grateful to be out of (including this blogger) .... but the depressed American economy.