If you fart around for a decade, never naming the enemy or taking the war to his homeland, you would be better off never to have gone to war in the first place.
Ask the Russians.
The lesson of Pearl Harbor is this: if you declare war, you have to fight with everything you’ve got and achieve total victory over the enemy’s ideology.
Amen, and when congress shirks it’s responsibility and lets the executive branch diddle around with war powers, what we see is what we get. It is their job to make the decision.
We have been diddling since the end of the big one in 1945.