And a Bacevich who once wrote something to the effect that “America is not that special” is someone in whom we should take stock? In a newspaper that long ago in a city and state that long ago forwent their sovereignty for manicured lawns and cheap labor to pick strawberries?
Just another hit piece from some liberal minded academic with an axe to grind.
Halfhearted and begrudged. Done with reluctance and tight jaws. It’s hard when politics requires you to bomb your allies and coreligionists.
Half-hearted?
What are we fighting for? To protect Muslim groups we don’t know and can’t trust from other from other Muslims groups we don’t know and can’t trust .... who may or may not be aligned with now or in the future with other Muslim groups we don’t know and can’t trust
At the end of which some undeterminable group of Muslims may or may not like us for some undeterminable amount of time ... meanwhile we’ll be berated for ‘interfering’ in the ME and causing all the mayhem to begin with.
Wow, that’s sounds like something to really get behind whole-heartedly!
Winning gets dirty.
Dirty gets on the internet these days. For goodness sake, that little kid sitting on the streets of Nanking still haunt the Japanese to this day. We are not about to do that.
America does not have the will to win. We have the means, but lack the will as a country.