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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: unclewest who wrote (491255)6/17/2012 10:46:18 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie6 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 793800
 
hmmmm, I was pondering the "why don't we win wars" question the other day. I think the draft is a correlation, not a causation. I think it is more about the will to win than the means to win. We are far more concerned with our public image in the world theater than we are with winning wars. We get into wars where there is a legitimate threat and then focus on freeing the people so they can be a democracy.

When I backpacked around europe in 1984 doing the youth hostel/eurail thing, I remember how the people in Luxembourg loved Americans because we had liberated them from the Germans. When a told an older barmaid that my uncle was buried in the American military city there, she wouldn't accept my money. I think that is what Americans are looking for now. We want to win wars while still having the people we conquer love us. I think that we are going into these wars with the attitude that the bad guys in the government and military are hated occupying forces, like the Germans were, when in fact they are made up of the brothers, fathers, mothers, sons and daughters of "the people". And when you kill somebody's family member, they aren't going to love you. When we accept that, maybe we can start winning wars again.

Our rules of engagement reflect our attitude of not wanting to be perceived as the "bad guy". When a soldier has to ask permission to fire a shot when being attacked, is it really any wonder why we have problems winning wars?
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