Agreed
Not since WW2 has the United States Congress committed troops into war with the full intentions to eliminate a enemy. Korea was a draw and North Korea has had it's way with us ever sense. Nam not so much but still Communist won. Gulf War one and Two? Out troops will face Gulf War Three because father and son and the congress under their tenure lacked a spine.
In the mean time Obama destabilized nations which were not a threat to the United States or anyone else.
These type policies go all the way back to Truman who took us into Korea. Although he did make the decision to end WW2's final battles with Japan with WMD's he did not follow through in NK. Vietnam {LBJ and McNamara's war} was entered into for basically money. Smedley Butler's theory on war certainly applied to LBJ. Nixon allowed political pressures to loose a war we were winning. The Geneva Convention should be shredded and used as wiping paper on military bases.
Iraq? OK if Saddam had to go {BTW fine by me} we had Constitutional means to do so faster and cheaper. It was Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter who opened us up to terrorist attacks by an EO prohibiting recognized heads of state from being assassinated. That law protected many late 1970's-mid 1980's thugs such as Arafat. Reagan went against it by the ordered attack on Qaddafi's hut itself.
It's very obvious we are making repeated mistakes with highly predictable bad responses and outcomes. Most M.E. issues would have resolved themselves had we simply kept out busy body nose out of Israel's policies on dealing with Islamic Thugs. At least that much Reagan understood well.