[Olog-hai]

"There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare."

— The Art Of War, II:6

It's the liberals that insist on prolonged warfare in order to weaken the military prior to their violent takeover at home. The patriots insist on swift victory using military might unfettered with absurd rules of engagement that tie the soldiers' hands.

[Olog-hai]

Just to expand that quote from The Art Of War by including verses 2 through 6 from chapter 2.

When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be damped. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength. / Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain. / Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor damped, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue. / Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays. / There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. ...

Sound familiar? Perhaps engineered by the liberals in charge of the military?

[Noumenon]

For as long as Winston can recall, Oceania has been in a constant state of war - with whom it was at war is of neither importance nor consequence.
George Orwell - 1984