[ETCM]

Perhaps with a few exceptions we have not fought a war for the purpose of actually winning it since. Ww2.

We smashed Iraq in GW1, and again in GW2. The difference was that GHWB was smart enough to walk away when he had won.

[montag813]

We smashed Iraq in GW1, and again in GW2. The difference was that GHWB was smart enough to walk away when he had won.

And keeping Arab strongmen like Saddam and Qadaffi in power is FAR better than destabilizing Iraq, emboldening Iran, causing mass chaos in Syria, helping create ISIS which killed half a million people, giving Erdogan way too much power, and unleashing 2 million migrants swarming Europe from both Syria and Africa.

[wastedyears]

Why did we go into the gulf the first time?