Posted on 02/22/2015 7:05:35 AM PST by Leaning Right
Below, we demonstrate that the U.S. keeps “losing” war after war.
There are 3 potential reasons this might be happening:
•Is this chaos an intentional way to implement regime change and grab resources?
•Or is this a sign of the decline of the American empire … and we just can’t win a war anymore?
•Or do those in charge just not really give a damn about winning … and are they just focusing on one short-term goal after another?
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
the results change when you change sides in the middle
And you can add on Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Lebanon.
When your main objective becomes not hurting someone’s feelings...
The military is very good at breaking things and killing bad guys. When left to those tasks we never lose. It’s when we try to be something else it falls apart. We should stick to just breaking things and killing bad guys.
Perhaps it’s because we shouldn’t have been fighting those six wars. We’re also losing the one we’re not fighting (indeed, enabling) which is stopping and reversing the invasion of the US.
The military is supposed to kill people and destroy infrastructure. Use the military to utterly destroy the enemy and his stuff, or stay home. Any attempt to win hearts and minds, or build nations will fail.
The answer is as simple as the nose on your face. Ever since the war we won, WW2, the politicians have changed how a “WAR” should be fought. We fought and won WW2, by killing our enemies any where and every where we found them. During WW2, our enemies had no compunction in killing our civilians, and we returned the favor by killing as many of their civilians. When we killed more of their civilians, than they did of ours, they surrendered. Now, these politicians have made it impossible for our soldiers to do their jobs properly, by making all kinds of very stupid rules on how we must fight our enemies. In the mean time, our enemies are fighting the war the same way we won WW2. Our enemies of today don’t seem to want to fight this war in a civilized manner.
The answer is as simple as the nose on your face. Ever since the war we won, WW2, the politicians have changed how a “WAR” should be fought. We fought and won WW2, by killing our enemies any where and every where we found them. During WW2, our enemies had no compunction in killing our civilians, and we returned the favor by killing as many of their civilians. When we killed more of their civilians, than they did of ours, they surrendered. Now, these politicians have made it impossible for our soldiers to do their jobs properly, by making all kinds of very stupid rules on how we must fight our enemies. In the mean time, our enemies are fighting the war the same way we won WW2. Our enemies of today don’t seem to want to fight this war in a civilized manner.
Despite the fact that none of these were fought with the intention of completely destroying or rendering our enemy unable to ever fight again, we are 5-1.
The problem is that the objectives with which we went into these actions did not constitute war as traditionally understood, therefore no "winning a war" was possible.
Had we actually fought ANY of these six as a war---with the exception of Korea---we would have utterly annihilated the enemy. But this brings with it problems. In Afghanistan and Iraq, especially, there was no real possiility of a post-WW II type "rebuilding" of a democratic, stable society because neither had ever experienced western style rights, liberties, and government. Contrary to many here, I don't think that development of such concepts was impossible there, only that it would take a helluva long time.
Korea was a different matter. The US military, absent atomic bombs, could not "defeat" the Chicoms on the mainland. We would have either pulled out altogether, or started a nuke war. I think Truman was extremely wise in his delicate balancing act in Korea.
But all this is beside the point, which is the proper approach to a true war is to win, and by winning you mean eliminating the emeny's ability AND WILL to resist. We haven't sought to do that anywhere, so it's hard to claim we have failed in not doing something we didn't attempt.
Obama's wars have been a huge disaster with incredibly bad lasting consequences for the world. Democrats once again have worked from within to destroy America and done a brilliant job of it.
Obama now is allowing the enemy to come to our lands in huge numbers on top of all he has destroyed in the Middle East for us. It is call invasion.
It used to be we fought until one side surrendered or an armistice is called.
I guess the point I am making is that when you are fighting an “idea” it is not possible to negotiate.
The ONLY way to stop this process is to get medieval on them. And with our current leadership, that is simply not going to happen.
I think the use of the word “disasters” implies that absolutely nothing good came out of any of it and I disagree with that assertion.
The U.S. Has Been Involved In More Than 5 Wars
WRONG, Those were all United Nations Peacekeeping missions, we have not “Officially” been at “WAR” since WWII.
Yep. And that could be part of the problem. Perhaps if we are not sufficiently threatened to declare war, we shouldn't get boots-on-the-ground involved at all.
IMHO, Bush II should have declared war against the Taliban right after 9/11. He should have asked for an actual war resolution, not some vague authorization to use force. We were sufficiently threatened.
But were we also that sufficiently threatened by Saddam? I don't think so.
Perhaps we should try avoiding wars altogether.
“Or do those in charge just not really give a damn about winning … and are they just focusing on one short-term goal after another?”
As long as we have liberals in government and a media that supports leftist ideology we will never win a war.
The Bush years were disastrous in many ways. Bush was the first to push for home ownership for everybody (later tried to put all the blame on Democrats), Bush proclaimed that Islam was a great religion, put Koran in the White House, got us involved in futile occupations which soured the people on Republicans and gave us Obama. So, yes, Bush = disaster.
Watch the Frontline report on how many bonehead mistakes were made in Iraq and it will make you furious. Obama doubled down on the insanity and now we have total chaos.
My personal conspiracy theory is that the Bush family was sent by Democrats to destroy the Republican Party from within.
Great book ... The Transformation of War by Martin van Creveld
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