On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 13:15:10 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

Why would we send our kids into a war we had no plans of winning?



Ask Truman and LBJ.

Both Bushs learned the lessons of Vietnam. Once a decision was made to
wage a war, it was done so in a manner to win. Harry will yak about
third rate armies, but a Russian tank is a tank regardless and Saddam
had a bunch of them.

Both excursions into Iraq weren't even close in terms of "not winning".

The problem in Iraq is we did not know what a win looked like. We beat
the army and hanged Saddam but nobody asked "what's next"?
We have the same problem in Syria and to some extent Afghanistan,
except we never beat anyone there. We killed a lot of people but there
was never a decisive win.
We actually accomplished more in Vietnam by admitting defeat and
getting everyone out. When Ho moved south, he could not maintain the
lie he perpetuated in the north because the people knew better and the
country immediately moved into the 20th century. It makes me wonder
what would happen if Kim had to assimilate 50 million 21st century
South Koreans into his closed society and still have them believing he
shot 10 holes in one in a row.