re: #402 HappyWarrior

True enough. MacArthur certainly did however. Honestly, Trump basically appeals to the idiot whose perception of history is shaped through propaganda and not actual reading.

The guys who think all wars are fought to totally crush an enemy, rather than to achieve policy goals otherwise unattainable. Remember, these are the people who say any form of compromise as utter defeat. Suppose for a moment we had, for example, used the full might of the US military to crush and utterly defeat North Vietnam. How would Russia and China have reacted?

These are the same clowns who think we can bomb Iran into regime change.