Canadian Politics Today

Riiiight. Do you even know which side of a gun shoots the little lead thing?
They won the wars and lost the peace. In both places they wound up with a corrupt, incompetent local administration, and in neither were there sufficient security forces, in part due to their own incompetence in firing all the Iraqi cops and disbanding the military. Even the UN says most civilian deaths were due to 'insurgents'.

"Won the wars"? surely you jest. They won nothing as both countries are in worse shape than they were prior to the invasions. In Iraq's case, (what was the reason for that one anyway)? they put in place a puppet government that was Shia and they in turn fired all Saddam's people who actually kept the lights on etc., in the country, because they were Sunni. A lot of them didn't like being kicked out of work, especially when they were much more confident that their replacements, and ended up having access to a lot of military hardware the US left behind. Voila, ISIS.
And perhaps you meant to say which END of the gun shoots the little lead thing. Blackwater is very good at explaining such things I'll fill you in some time if you like.