Mission Accomplished

Now, Years Later... After the immediately previous president, the now notoriously maladroit George W. Bush completed his own personal mission in Iraq; that is, he killed Saddam Hussein, we find a curiously inept semi-non-government in that sad country, apparently unable to accomplish even the simplest of tasks: Top Insurgents Escaped Prison Days After Iraq Took Over. Of course, an actual functioning society was never in the sight of the former president. In fact, I suspect he wouldn't recognize a functioning society if he were to actually live in one. Which he doesn't. However, feeling pestered by his Secretary of State Colin "You Broke It, You Bought It" Powell, the president embarked on a course of Nation Building.
Doesn't seem to have worked.
Turns out, Bush was a wizard at Nation Destroying, but all his horses and all his men never managed to put any of them back together again.
It's left to the new president, Barack H. Obama, to try to put Humpty back together. Thus far, eighteen months into his term, he hasn't managed it with Afghanistan, the United States, or, apparently, with Iraq. I think the current president, a seemingly intelligent man, is devoutly hoping that what we would see in a game of chess as stalemate will look enough like success to satisfy the warlike instincts of the ordinary U.S. citizen, so he can, as president Richard M. Nixon did, simply declare victory and walk away.