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Exactly Ed. Just my opinion. I believe it was Nikita Khrushchev that made a statement during the early 1960s. "The way to defeat the US is with patience, they will destroy themselves from within". As with Viet Nam, we could have made a parking lot out of North Viet Nam but protests and politics wanted us out of there, thus peace negotiations and no win. We were Gung ho to get into Afganistan, and another bunch of protests and politics and no winner. Plus we walked out and left billions of arms behind.
At least in the Army, we were trained to kill or be killed, destroy the enemy and obey orders, but protests and politics does not allow that.
Nikita was right, we will destroy ourselves from within and the rest of the patient world will watch.