re: #20 freetoken

And speaking of Middle-East conflicts:

The seductive allure of wars we’re not winning

I think the author, Andrew J. Bacevich, is trying to pull a quick one here.

His claim of “didn’t win in Iraq” doesn’t have any meaning without defining “win”.

The US clearly achieved several (if not all) of its military objectives in Iraq.

So in that sense we did “win”.

It’s just that “winning” is not all it’s cracked up to be.

It’s a case of the U.S. knows how to win wars. But it no longer know how to win the peace.