Well intentioned but wishful thinking on our President’s part.
Not wishful thinking at all, if he trusts his own instincts rather than those of John Bolton.
Napoleon gave good advice when he said, “If you’re going to take Vienna, take Vienna.”
In other words, if you’re going to war, do it with all your resources and get it done. Waging war half-heartedly with restrictive ‘rules of engagement’ is a recipe for failure.
The US hasn’t waged all out war since WWII, and we haven’t successfully concluded most of them.
The Marshall Plan was for AFTER the war, not during.
The hard part of ending a war is convincing the other guy to quit.