Getting out of wars requires victory, not retreat.
Oh, so it’s victory we’re after, eh? Please explain to everybody here what exactly “victory” is.
Yes. If we are at war, we need to play to win. Destroy utterly whomever the US descends upon. Make every penny, ounce of blood, and pint of sweat spent count to beat foes into submission. Who swear to never ever cross us again.
Forget nation-building, winning the hearts and minds of peoples who have nothing in common with us. All that stupid patty-cake. They’ll come around on their own when they see what they did to bring ruination upon themselves didn’t work.
And if we go in, we have a plan to get in, fight to win, AND get out. We always have a plan to go in. Our last two decades were woefully short on smashing the foe and getting out.
Until we relearn how to win wars with a lasting peace, I think we should clear up our own problems at home and stay out of everyone else’s.