The US decided in April of 1951 to not win wars using all out military force like World War II.
General Douglas MacArthur was fired by President Harry Truman for wanting to take the war to China after it intervened in Korea.
George W. Bush led this nation down the path of another Vietnam with his Republican Establishment Neoconservative cronies tough talking patriotic rhetoric etc. etc. masked the true policy.
Al Qaeda came out of Saudi Arabia a business ally of the USA.
The Taliban created by Pakistani military intelligence. Pakistan a nuclear weapons nation allied with China.
Trump knew this and tried to find a fighting way out of this massive and costly quagmire but oops he’s no longer in the White House.
Mitch McConnell was also against Trump removing troops from there. He’s part of the Military Industrial Complex.
Good Post.
I remember when "Stormin'" Norman Schwarzkopf want to to take the war all the way to Baghdad to end it once and for all, and he was stopped by Colin Powell.
The American military has been self-hamstrung by the concept of "proportional force." We haven't been allowed to use all the means at our disposal for at least 50 years.
The LAAP-dog media has been attacking Israel over "disproportional force" against Palestinians ever since they occupied Gaza and started shooting rockets over the border.
And now we're being asked to fight with one arm tied behind our backs, because Germany and Japan are no longer the models, destroy, surrender, and reconstruct. Instead, "nation-building" requires that the infrastructure remain mostly intact, so we go easy with the military and drag it on for years, giving the enemy the time to learn and adapt.
-PJ