[dragnet2]

Someone get a memo to Rumsfeld: >Stay tuned and watch. And don’t expect 10 year long compassionate wars where we do all the heaving lifting, dying and rebuilding their stink holes. They weakened our country and looted the American treasure with these failed policies. We’re broke, so we’ll do it tougher and smarter this time.<

[rlmorel]

Perhaps. But I at best all I hear is talk, and at worst, there are people in charge who want us to accept that what we have seen with terrorist attacks is the new normal.

[right way right]

A smart man like Trump knows he can use the advice and experience of Rumsfeld.
Good executives know that those with experience can teach and advise as they know much about success and failure. There is much value in knowing both.

A guy like Obama or Hillary can not even acknowledge either success or failure because they can neither achieve one, nor recognize the other.
They live in the fantasy world of politics where nothing matters except controlling perceptions to stay in power but, for the people they can accomplish nothing positive.

[proud American in Canada]

Yes.

There was too much precious American blood spilled over there. We can make more money, we can get more going, but we cannot get those lives back.

[HiTech RedNeck]

All hot wars the US has gotten into have been reconstruction wars, except when the politics or logistics did not permit a victory to happen.

Iraq needed a democracy like a fish needed a bicycle. The model that the Shah of Iran had provided was the optimal one for that kind of country. Get a friendly ruler in there and then prop him up by all means, but don’t try to get the Islamic mind to understand democracy.