In broad strokes:

Saddam Hussein brutally– but effectively– suppressed sectarian violence and Islamic terrorism in Iraq– and served as a counterweight to Iran’s regional ambitions. This delicate balance was thrown into chaos by the 2003 Iraq War.

That is a widely-accepted, nonpartisan reading of events.

But renowned foreign policy expert, Professor Sean Hannity, argues that everything was copacetic until Obama done messed with it…

Rand: I think it some ways, I think terrorism is worse because there is a chaotic vacuum in Iraq that came out of the Iraq War. … Professor Hannity: Senator, let me just disagree with you, because we know that the surge worked! There was stability! Violence was down to a lower point than even before the war started…it was certainly an ally of the United of America. … Rand: The whole chaos of the region came out of the Iraq War. Before the Iraq War, there was actually more stability than there is now…I would in no way, shape or form, put American troops in the middle of that mess.

Let’s face it…

Kinda sorta.