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?
What about Islam? Seems like they are indeed taking the road of the “long siege”, over 1400 years.
Each and every day they kill on average another 25 or so (large standard-deviation) infidels, each day of the week, each week of the month, each month of the year, each year of the century, each century of the millenia, for the last 1400 years... since Medina.
By the sword, they now claim 1/5 of the earth’s population.
Of course, this whole “war” was and is designed to destroy the USA-—as all Wars are funded by the super elites-—both sides since before WWI to increase their vast wealth which will insure their ownership of all institutions and “textbook” companies and a money-laundering system and enough to own judges (the “legal” system).
Western Civilization—particularly Christianity—has been a sword in the super elites and they devised a methodology (”education”) to destroy the ability of people to “think” like the Minds which created the Age of Reason and Modern Science and the USA (individuality/Unique identity) for a “collective” (group (non) think) Mind.
The Cultural Marxists in 1930 knew that to destroy Virtue formation (only possible with a Classical Christian worldview) they had to completely mock and demean our heros and saints to deconstruct culture—tear it down, since Christianity is the only rational “just” “individual” (Free Will) ideology/Theology in HISTORY.
Can’t have “Free Will” (choice) in children—they have to be so DUMB and TRIBAL that they will be incapable of Reason and Logic—only taught with Classical Socratic and Aristotelian methodology which has been erased for 60 years at least in most “schools”. The only faith banned by “Just Law” is Christianity—since it is the only rational faith—and in its place they force satanism, paganism (sodomy, baby-sacrifice) and hinduism (yoga/reincarnation) and other irrational, contradictory, stupid faiths.
Of course, the Chinese helped in Iraq. They sent PLA officers to sell Saddam the idea that he could get away with a "rope-a-dope" strategy against the U.S. He was going to bug out and take his people with him -- that's what all those $4.3 million boxes of fresh cash were about. That was the go-bag. Instead, the ChiComs persuaded them to stay.
We owe the ChiComs big. We also owe the Iranians big.