RATS want to lose the wars because that way it appears that they did something, but didn't hurt the enemy.
It also goes without saying that they are against war - because it is bad and kills people, but they are just fine with abortion as a birth control method.
It’s not just ‘rats’. I was never signed on to the idea of Eisenhower’s warning (the ‘Military Industrial Complex’) until I got older. GW proved it without a doubt imho.
Afghanistan should have remained a SOF action. The MIC smelled $$, lobbied the Pentagon brass/Congress and they went all-in, without regard for after-action (what it means to ‘win’). It really is the only explanation for what was a successful campaign up to then.
Then came ERROE. (escalating-restrictive ROE)
Lone Survivor was an incredibly emotional experience for me and I wasn’t in the sandbox. I got very, very angry that they didn’t call in an airstrike, let the goat herders go and didn’t have a better SHTF/Extraction plan, because I KNEW that it was due to the political landscape, not ‘military doctrine’.
The really horrible irony is what’s happened to opium production via Afghanistan since ‘01. Sickening. Let alone what’s happened to the price of heroin & cocaine in the last decade. Are we really out to win ‘anything’?
Maybe I should just ‘shut up’.
See my other comment in this thread...