We could have won the Vietnam war but the generals were not allowed to do what's necessary to win. Not sure I would classify it as a win. More like a stalemate / draw.
Now we won the Iraq war. But the aftermath ...not so much (sarcasm).
“Now we won the Iraq war. But the aftermath ...not so much (sarcasm).”
That was another fool’s errand brought to us by Bush the Younger and his band of Democracy Project utopians.
In their dream world religion and culture, including Islam, wasn’t something to worry about and so could be ignored. All you had to do was kill their evil dictator, give everyone the vote, and voila! paradise would ensue. Idiots.