First, the leaders in this country have to decide what a win is. It’s not providing schools, health care, cell phones, and bribed leaders who will say what we want to hear as long as our money keeps flowing to them.
The neocon fantasy of spreading democracy to the great unwashed was one of the dumbest foreign policy ideas ever concocted by those who love to send other people’s sons to fight.
defining victory is easy.
we win, they lose.
And victory should ALWAYS have as it’s TOP priority, keeping OUR casualties and expenses to a minimum, while MAXIMIZING the cost in blood and treasure to our enemy until they capitulate and beg us to accept their surrender.
Until we relearn this age old lesson we will continue to have these endless wars that bankrupt us and cost us 10’s of thousands of lives.
Either fight all the way, or don’t fight at all.
American blood to set in motion the "Arab Spring".
And despite current denial, the mainstream Democratic Party was also completely complicit in the madness.