by Ted Sherman

Created on: March 03, 2007   Last Updated: April 19, 2007

Just look at the history of US wars since WWII. We didn't win one of them. Korea ended in a stalemate, after 50,000 US deaths and with aggressor North Korea stronger today than ever before. We bugged out of Vietnam after ten frustrating years and 50,000 US deaths.

The elder President Bush turned US troops around and left the Gulf War just days before a total victory could have been accomplished. This allowed Saddam and all the terrorist organizations to continue killing millions more.

Now we are engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan, an area where religious fanatics have been murdering each other for a thousand years. We've already lost ten thousand Americans, including those murdered on 9/11/01, and have resolved absolutely nothing. Despite the political rhetoric and surging, there is every indication this war will end for America the same way all others have since 1953.

Given enough troops, effective equipment and the total support of the American people, our competent armed forces could certainly end the war within days. But like Korea and Vietnam, the control of the war is in the incompetent hands of politicians, and they're once again determined to negotiate our next surrender.

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