As in Vietnam we can't fight this war in a conventional manner and the ultra conservation, tradition bound military can't seem to get their minds around this. Our idiotic invasion of Iraq created ISIS just as the allies' treatment of Germany after WWI created Hitler. Invasion and occupations, no matter how they are intended, cause dead people, destruction and resentment. In defeating an enemy we create new ones. The people of the middle east don't believe we're in this to help them. They know we're doing it for the oil and to keep corporations happy. Wars make a lot of people a lot of money. Just a preliminary reading of world history will show you that the third world has no reason to believe the west about anything and would be stupid if they did.
As in Vietnam we can't fight this war in a conventional manner and the ultra conservation, tradition bound military can't seem to get their minds around this. Our idiotic invasion of Iraq created ISIS just as the allies' treatment of Germany after WWI created Hitler. Invasion and occupations, no matter how they are intended, cause dead people, destruction and resentment. In defeating an enemy we create new ones. The people of the middle east don't believe we're in this to help them. They know we're doing it for the oil and to keep corporations happy. Wars make a lot of people a lot of money. Just a preliminary reading of world history will show you that the third world has no reason to believe the west about anything and would be stupid if they did.