“This time, war-weary America would refuse to help until it was too late.”
I don’t think the USA has had the heart to win a war since WWII.
>> I don’t think the USA has had the heart to win a war since WWII <<
Respectfully speaking, I gotta disagree with you there.
I maintain that thanks to Nixon’s ferocious bombing of Hanoi in December 1972, we won the Vietnam war. But then because of Nixon’s vulnerability in the Watergate affair, the Congress threw our VN victory away in 1973 and 1974 by cutting the legs out from under our South Vietnamese allies. Because of legislation sponsored by the likes of Senators John Sherman Cooper and Frank Moss, it became illegal for the USA even to send medical supplies to the ARVN. I think there has been no greater disgrace in all of American foreign policy. Even JFK’s Bay of Pigs cowardice pales by comparison.
Then once again, we won in Iraq in 2006-07 thanks to Bush’s “surge” program. But tragically, Obama threw that victory totally away by his stupid and feckless withdrawal in 2011. In my opinion, Obama’s policy in this matter is more-or-less tied with the anti-Nixon VN tragedy for the title of our worst foreign policy disgrace.
(Granted that the recent Iran deal probably will turn out to be yet a worse disgrace. But I’d say it’s just too early now to make a convincing historical judgment.)