The Penalty for Not Winning

Manufacturing false flag events to open preemptive wars
against Third World countries is patently
illegal. If they had been clever, the US regimes would have made sure
they could achieve their aims quickly. Fighting a third rate nation six years
to reach a stalemate is hardly a feather in the military cap. Artificially
extending hostilities so long may inspire the offended nations to retaliate.
Liberals happily waged war in Vietnam
until they realized they would inevitably lose it. A hard core of Americans
insists on a steady diet of killing. I wonder if their enthusiasm would
continue if nukes began exploding in the USA.