100%!
Rinse, lather, repeat.
That’s how they kill head lice. No one tries to make a nation out of them. When they bite, they die.
Interestingly, I was in the Pentagon on Feb 24th, 1991. I ran the computer systems for the NMCC (WWMCCS NMCC). The whole thing was due to Colin Powell having second thoughts, and called off Swartzkopf at the last minute. Powell lives for pleasing the media and having a good legacy. A media darling, smiling for the camera.
We had less than 50 miles of open desert to Baghdad, with the entire Republican Guard broken and behind us that day.
Looking back at history one more Time - Lincoln had to go through a number of Generals before he settled on Grant, and Grant settled on Sherman. Sherman new a thing or two about how to end a war in a short time.
The Bushes are/were no Lincolns