Baldwin is right about the Iraq war. It was a vanity war, fought because the president wanted it, for personal reasons, not because Saddam was a danger to us.
And while Saddam was a vicious tyrant who savagely persecuted anyone who threatened or seemed to threaten his power, he protected Christians. Not because he was a good person, but because he wanted no religious strife disturbing things. A Christian who got out of line would have been eliminated just as ruthlessly as Islamic militants were eliminated. But most Iraqi Christians, like most Iraqi Muslims were comfortable and prosperous, in spite of having no political rights.
When we removed him, we began the process of the destruction of the Iraqi Christian community.
Throwing away a trillion dollars or so, and a few thousand American lives.