Our Army is losing the War on Terror? I don't think so. Our Army is the finest in the world, probably in the history of the world. What battles have we lost? Our politicians won't let us fight the war to win it (Total War).
The public might be tired of endless war in foreign lands. I don't doubt for one minute that if a shooting war came to our shores that the citizens of this country wouldn't rise up and fight.
We lost the war. If we hadn't - we wouldn't be having this conversation because ISIS wouldn't be running rampant across multiple countries in the Mideast - including Iraq. You know - the country we invaded so we could stop terrorism?
Maybe I'm crazy - but when somebody tells me " we won the war" - I want to see the evidence.
When we won WW2 - it meant the American flag flew over Berlin and Tokyo, the Japanese Navy was at the bottom of the ocean , the German army was all dead or marching back to their farms, the Luftwaffe was a shell of it's old self, Hitler's body was burning in a pit. Tojo was dead. We controlled their countries. Their people knew they had been defeated. A new political structure was setup and HAS STAYED IN PLACE. Etc.
Same thing happened in the American Revolution. One side won - the other side lost.
Same in the Civil War.
Same in the Spanish American War.
Close to the same in the Korean War (we at least kicked them out of South Korea)
Not so much in Vietnam.
And if this is even possible - we accomplished an actual negative for the stated goal of "stopping terrorism" - when we invaded Iraq. Because before we went in - there was no "terrorist" organization running parts of Iraq. There was Saddam - who was a douche. But he was not a "terrorist" organization. He led a douche government - like a lot of other douche governments that existed since WW2 (and before).
So we go in - take all of that out - and after 10 or so years of fighting - the major accomplishment we leave behind - is that a terrorist organization is running part of the country - and another one of our alleged enemies : Iran - has major influence in other parts of the country.
Great job.
Sorry - but I don't call that a win by any stretch of the imagination.
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I'm not saying that I don't care, I do, but things have been so ****ed up for so long, it's hard to even figure out where to start to un**** them, which would take many generations and quiet frankly I don't see happening. Sheeple don't care, none in congress care.
We have a huge war ahead of us, and it's the war for our own country. Until we clean the house, it's useless to try to clean anyone else's.
When you're in a hole - stop digging.
That's where you start.
The first rule for doctors is : do no harm.