Wars and more wars

The news is out and once again America loses a war but the good news is that the US is losing faster. The Korea War lasted 3 years and 35,000 American soldiers died but North Korea was still standing. Vietnam cost 50,000 lives and lasted 19 years and North Vietnam was still standing. Afghanistan lasted 20 years with the loss of 2,400 soldiers and the Taliban remained. The second Gulf War lasted 8 years and 4,500 US soldiers died and it spawned ISIS. Finally, the Iran War lasted 6 weeks and 13 soldiers died. The trend is clear, the US is getting better at losing. The last war that American won was WW 2 and the major difference was the killing of civilians with fire bombing cities and the use of two nuclear bombs. This change in tactics was prompted by the rules of war as laid out in the 1949 Geneva Convention. Following these rules means there will always be losers in war but not winners. The winners win when they rise from the rubble and say we’re still here. Even the 45-year cold war ended when the USSR changed its name to Russia and the same leadership remained. Strange as it may seem this has to be considered progress when it comes to war. In mankind’s relentless search for self-destruction the world will have to wait until the next combatants go after each other with nuclear weapons, which will not be able to segregate the civilians from the soldiers and there will finally be a real winner again. Will Iran rise like the phoenix from the ashes to start the long-anticipated WW 3?