Why Has America Stopped Winning Wars?

The Atlantic ^ | June 2015 | Dominic Tierney

[ForYourChildren]

“Why Has America Stopped Winning Wars?”

When was the las time America declared war?

Police actions are not “wars.”

[Terry L Smith]

The politicians fettered the military, in Vietnam.
Korea was a United Nations war, and of course,
showed the impotence of the United Nations,
before the Soviets and Red Chinese, which gave the
means to write the war plans for what became
Vietnam.

[PapaBear3625]

you cannot win a war against an ideologically driven loose knit group of people, as there is no one to sign the treaty. all you can do is get an ever updating count of the enemy... and start decrementing it to zero

Wars end when the wives, mothers, and daughters of the enemy beg them to please make it stop.

The Three Conjectures

[Let's Roll]

Because it’s just so “un-faaaayer.”

[Responsibility2nd]

“We” don’t really go to war anymore. Somebody else does, and “We” barely notice.

[Demiurge2]

Intriguing point - in all of US history, the Civil War and WW2 are outliers. Among all our other wars, they are by far the bloodiest, they are the only ones where the opponent states were stomped into nonexistence... and they are also the only ones that liberals, to this day, consider “good” wars.

[mabarker1]

Thank You for Your Service. Glad You made it back Home.

[Svartalfiar]

Eh, we really won in Viet Nam, we just then gave up and went home.

[Lady Heron]

Democrats.

[KosmicKitty]

We do not define victory. You can’t win if you don’t know what that looks like.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Why has America elected the same idiot twice...?

[PGR88]

That’s funny - he didn’t follow his own advice!

[US Navy Vet]

See “National Security Act of 1947/1986”.

[ConservingFreedom]

If we were truly engaging in a War on Drugs, we would see tens of thousands dead or in jail every year. Until America resembled some Islamic hell-hole or even North Korea.

Sounds like a hoot!

[navyguy]

I disagree that we haven’t been winning. For example, we won in VietNam. When we pulled out in 1973 we had a friendly gov’t in VN. All we had to do was continue providing assistance (military, economic, etc...). But less than 2 years later Democrats in congress pulled all of that support out from under the VN government. This was a violation of our agreement but Democrats didn’t care. Naturally the Communists took over in short order.

The same basic scenario has played out in Iraq and likely will in Ashcanistan. Democrats can ALWAYS be counted on to assist the enemy under the guise of ‘peace’.

[arthurus]

Because we do not try to win wars any more. We try to make the enemy into democrats in societies for which democracy is simply not relevant. It takes long term colonization- centuries- and control of the schools and their curricula for several generations to bring democracy to such a society. It cannot be brought to a moslem society unless the colonizer is willing to hang people for signs of their religion, such as men wearing brimless hats.

[left that other site]

and endured seven decades of martial frustration

I kid you not. My eyes read: "seven decades of MARITAL frustration."YIKES.

[Buckeye McFrog]

One Word Answer: Democrats

[Buckeye McFrog]

endured seven decades of martial frustration

they make a little blue pill for that...

[left that other site]

LOL....