I take exception to that statement. We didn't lose. We never had a goal. We accomplished Shrub's mission, getting even for daddy. But we never planned on creating a working democracy.
"We lost" is the same as the Repos calling the Demos demand for a troop reduction as a "Surrender" or "Cut and run".
Getting out of a situation we should have never been in is not losing, is not surrendering, is not cutting and running. It is just good common sense.