Excuse me, I should have qualified ground wars don't work on enemies that don't wear uniforms and don't fight from behind front lines, or any lines for that matter, unless you haven't noticed.
You left Viet Nam off your list. You know the Viet Nam war that we lost, too.
that ground war worked for the North. Ground wars work. When the enemy is difficult to find such as ISIS, it does not mean we should say "well, a ground war against this enemy will not work so we wont engage them"....you find a way to make them work.
But you did not explain why our strategy does not include the elimination of training camps and munitions depots....why did we know where they were but not take them out?
Anything?
So 10 years in Iraq means what to you? Victory? 1,000,000 wounded is called winning?
The military mocked Bush for making them cut the tail off the snake instead of the head.
And they were right, because the head survived and became ISIS. Thanks, Bush.
if you had any understanding of military operations.....it is not about "winning"...it is about accomplishing a mission. There are no winners in war. Everyone loses.
Grow up and I suggest you get off the Bush thing. He has been out for 7 years...and history will judge him the correct way........and you will likely cry everytime you read about his legacy.
Spin it any way you want, our mission was not accomplished either, was it? If so, please state what Bush and Cheney accomplished in Iraq and Afghanistan.
ISIS was formed by al-Baghdadi in Camp Bucca in Iraq in 2005 when he was detained there with other terrorist captives. They didn't pop out of the ground in 2009 like you idiots would like to believe.
Yes, Bush's absolute failure is his legacy and left an interminable mess for the next POTUS to try to fix.
Actually, His VP, Biden gave Obama the credit for a well campaigned final surge in Iraq.
The mission in Afghanistan was to destabilize the Taliban. That was accomplished. The fact that our President did not feel it necessary to renegotiate the SOFA treaty as he was advised to do by his leadership on the ground will go down as one of his biggest boneheaded decisions....and it allowed for the potential resurgence of the Taliban.
In Iraq, the mission was to uncover and destroy the WMD's that the intelligence agencies of almost a dozen countries claimed to have existed. The mission was not accomplished because the intel was incorrect....blame the CIA and the similar agencies of a dozen other nations.
Us idiots don't believe ISIS popped out of the ground you child. We know how it came to be and we sit idly by as we watch them grow and become more emboldened...as our fearless leader makes claims like "they are JV" and "they are contained"..
But again.....why does our strategy only include about 10 sorties a day (compared to as many as 1000 a day during Desert Storm) and NOT include the destruction of munitions depots and training camps?
I suppose you don't see him as kicking the can down the road. Of course you don't. You are a child.