Win or lose

Once again America has gone off to war without a commitment to win. The politics places severe limitations on what the generals can do. It has been the same since WW 2, the last time the US went to war to win. The US is not allowed to cause any civilian losses and so things just drag on. The Iranians will without reservation put their people in harms way. One school was inadvertently bombed and it made national news for a week. The Iranians threatened to surround their power plants with civilians if the US attempted to bomb them. This is the same strategy that Hamas used against the Jews. They built miles of underground tunnels with the entrances and exits located in schools, hospitals and Mosque. When any civilian was killed, they put that on the national news and embarrassed the Jews. They were winning the war of public opinion. The Jews for a while followed the US approach but in time they went after Hamas’s fighters who stayed among the public and accepted the public condemnation. The only war that deviated from the current practice since WW 2 was when Bush 41 drove the Iraqi forces out of Kuwait and then when he stopped going after the Republican Guard in Iraq, he faced criticism. The press declared that the US did not win the war because Bush left Saddam off the hook.