Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Best way to be the Biggest Loser

If there were a Biggest Loser show for failed military adventurers, US would triumph; about the only thing we could win at. Since WWII, the US has cornered the market on military failure: Korea in the 50's, Vietnam in the 60's and 70's, and an avalanche of failures in the 21st including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Pakistan, and Yemen. Even when we win we lose. The first Iraq war left in place Saddam Hussein to goad the American behemoth into the second Iraq war which has been a disaster.  Even our successful trap of the Soviets in Afghanistan in '79 set up the Mujaheddin under Osama bin Laden to pivot toward expelling America from the Middle by using blowback (911) to entice us to the same over extension which doomed the Russians.  There is one way for for Uncle Sam to benefit from being the Biggest Loser....lose all those soldiers and airmen occupying South Korea and the Middle East. The weight of endless perpetual war being shed will improve the Uncle's health dramatically, and all of ours as well. 

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