Lot of that going around, I did a tour in Iraq, and I have similar thoughts. Around 5K KIA, what was accomplished? Iraq today is a proxy for Iran, whom our dear leader loves throwing money at.
*the template for the Vietnam War was the Korean War.*
I think our WW2 success was a bigger one. It’s the nothing-we-can’t-do attitude.
Think-the French gave up there just like they did building the Panama Canal. We built it and bailed them out in 2 world wars. Show them up. The French plus the rest of the world.
Hindsight will always be 20-20. I say give them the $4 billion Kissinger promised. Do it in the form of military equipment(deep state) as they have bigger issues with the Chicoms, something we didn’t care to realize.
Then give $4 billion to ElSalvador to build more prisons for the gang bangers-theirs and ours.