I remember having very mixed feelings. I felt Afghanistan was in some sense justified, though perhaps a Very Bad Idea. (The whole, "Afghanistan breaks empires" history lesson.) For Iraq, I thought they probably did have a WMD program, but still thought it was a Very Bad Idea.
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I was 20, just out of college. I think I'm allowed to be wrong and admit it later. Better than not admitting it, eh? As for being dispassionate: we're not talking about the war itself, we're talking about our memory of their beginning, and how our wrongness shaped our views.
(And just to clarify, because the age part here is poorly written, and I am bungling my own numbers: for the Afghan War, I was 20 in 10/2001. I graduated college in fall 2002, a little after I turned 21. When the Iraq War started, in 3/2003, I was still 21.)
