I think our leaders did what they thought was in the best interests of our national security at the time. Ok, they had some bad intelligence...little egg on their face. Now they have to clean up the results as best they can, and if they can make it out of there with a secular, democratic government in place, I'd say it was a success. We've removed one of the most openly antagonistic regimes from power and strengthened our position in the Middle East and helped our allies there.