Having been a soldier under Democrat leadership (Vietnam), I say the second a Dem becomes commander in chief it is time to bring the troops home. The only outcome will be you will be maimed or killed -— or neither of those but simply find the cause abandoned later on. The minute a pinko takes command it is time to turn the guns on Washington!
That’s my kind of anti-war. I don’t mind crushing your enemies, driving them before you or even the lamentation of their women on the nightly news. I am anti-stagnant-war just taking and giving casualties tit-for-tat.
In your case, the army should have been sent marching on Hanoi. Korea has been cited as the reason we did not.
The lesson of Korea was not that a war to win invites intervention but that a war of skirmishes over a border produces far more death than a war of movement, at least for the vastly superior advancing side. 1/3 of American deaths in Korea occured during the North’s invasion, the Chinese counter-attack and retaking the southern half of the peninsula. 2/3 of American deaths happened after the line was stabilized at the 38th parallel because Truman ordered the military to go no further. And if Stalin had wanted to use the nuclear bomb over Korea or Brezhnev or Mao over Vietnam, that should have been left up to them. Would have been the last thing they ever did. The overriding rule should have been “You start it - We finish it.”
In Afghanistan, there needs to be coordination with Pakistan on this simple strategy: No sanctuaries; they drive the Taliban over the border where we annihilate them.