01-24-2018, 09:55 AM
(01-23-2018, 10:19 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(01-23-2018, 07:13 PM)nebraska Wrote: When was the last time the USA won a war?
Does overthrowing Satan Hussein count?
It was never clear what Bush 43 was trying to do when he started Iraq War II. Did he want to overthrew Saddam? Was he trying to establish a puppet state for ongoing attacks? Was he trying to eliminate weapons of mass destruction? Was he trying to expand democracy and human rights? Was he trying to put troops near the oil? Was he trying to destabilize the Middle East, to center Arab violence away from Israel?
It seemed to me at the time that the objective kept changing from week to week, and parts of the government had different goals than others. This is not good. Some goals were met. Some goals were not. Some goals never were, and existed only for propaganda purposes. Some results are clear only after the fact.
The question of who 'won' is not easy.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.