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On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 16:53:07 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:


What was it, a whole decade in Vietnam fighting a fourth-rate military
force? Don't blame the pols...


They had the same problem we have had in all of our middle east
misadventures. Nobody really defines what a win would entail.
We took Baghdad and hanged the dictator but we didn't win the war. A
decade later, we still haven't.
That is the way it is when you get involved in civil wars with 3d
world cultures.