It is not every day that you hear a conservative commentator go off on an extended rant about how the war in Iraq was a colossal waste and total failure, but that is exactly what Bryan Fischer did today on his radio program.
According to Fischer, there is one, and only one, metric by which the success of the war can be judged and that was whether or not the US left behind a nation which protected religious liberty for Christians. And based on that one measurement, Fischer declared the Iraq war to be a monumental failure for which the US has absolutely nothing to show.
In fact, said Fischer, Christians actually had it better under Saddam Hussein because he realized that he could only trust Christians to help him run the country because all the Muslims were liars and thieves. But when Hussein was toppled, the protection for Christians vanished and now they have been left at the mercy of "a spirit of darkness, a spirit of death, a spirit of tyranny, a spirit of despotism, a spirit of terror" that is Islam.
Finally, Fischer declared that since Muslims hate liberty and freedom, the next president must declare that not one dollar will be spent to rebuild Muslim nations because doing so is a waste of American blood and treasure: