The problem in foreign policy is not fighting the fights, its in the United States government’s refusal in the post World War II-United Nations Era to win any of the wars America gets involved in.
The United States needs to fight its wars for the United States and win them, not fight them for the United Nations and “New World Order” like we are doing right now and drag them out with limited tactics and objectives.
Three problems we had in Vietnam, were: 1: the high body count on our side, 2: the corrupt unstable government we were there to shore up, 3: not going in for the kill in the North.
1. We did get the body count right this time around. Even if you add in the injured troops, the count was much lower than in Vietnam.
2. In Iraq (and probably not Afghanistan) we set up a reasoned government and held free elections. The government was rather stable. I believe it needed more time to stabilize and move forward. Afghanistan is still problematic, and I’m not happy about the rules of engagement. It seems to me we need to be more assertive with the Afghanistan government. If we aren’t, the prognosis for long term stability is reduced significantly.
3. As for the third problem, I believe we have allowed Iran to game the system for political and military gain. We should have warned them early on. Then we should have taken punitive measures if it wouldn’t stay out. Training, arming, and sending in terrorists, should have garnered Iran some heavy penalties.
I am sensitive to your reference to the U. N. and globalist concessions we make in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. As it applies to Iran, I have a problem with it there too.
In Iraq, I think we did a rather admirable job. There were factional problems there. We kept the Sunnis and Shiites fairly well balanced. We kept the Kurds fairly satisfied.
I was not impressed with the inclusion of women in government, or their inclusion in the vote. It’s not that I have a problem with women voting, but Iraq was not the U. S., and it really wasn’t any of our business who voted there.
As for the U. N. and globalist demands, I’d tell them to go blank themselves if they even opened their yaps. I agree with you there.