“Their would be no issues here at all if we ‘intervened’ as we did from 1941-45 in a couple of locales...dont recall a peep from any of those areas in 75+ years....after our ‘intervention’”
We should have stay focused on Afghanistan, brought to their knees begging to surrender, and making them an example.
Instead we naïve relied on corrupt locals, lose bin Laden at Tora Bora, and now bug out.
Our career military is full of political Generals, who sell out their troops for a star.
We have not won a major war that stayed won, since WWII.
The reason is the “guilt” over dead civilians in Germany and Japan.
WW II was the last war that there was a formal congressional declaration of war. Since they, we have utilized Constitution workarounds. We win when we get the nation behind it and draft 15,000,000 military for overwhelming force to win and occupy. No war since WW II has merited the complete support of the American people. The American people did support war on those involved in 9/11 but instead we attack Iraq 'because it was doable', they would welcome us with flowers and oil would pay for it. FUBAR.
The reason is the “guilt” over dead civilians in Germany and Japan.
I think the reason is that Germany and Japan were the last non-Communist, non-politically correct opponents we've had in war--and Japan has picked up a certain amount of PC-ness since then.
For a while there the Israelis were the only western power that regularly won wars against Communists (under left wing governments, ironically), and now they've caught the same disease the rest of us have.