I entirely agree. The ships are not moving, because Lloyds of London is charging about 3% of the value of the cargo as an insurance premium, and that makes it uneconomic. The ships could move if the … (View Post)

Quite a few wars that are won, result in occupation, and governments maintained by an army of occupation, as noted upthread. (View Post)

Sure. One was to be willing to tolerate casualties. That's a feature of warfare. That's a good reason to think long and hard about going to war (and thinking is not what this administration… (View Post)

That is correct. Very few wars end with the complete destruction of the opposing state. Quite often a war can be won, by one side, even if the parties simply revert to the ante bellum status quo (I w… (View Post)

I think the Taliban could have been contained indefinitely. Having gone in, I think the USA owed it to the Afghans not to just abandon them. Now, Afghan women are essentially chattel slaves. (View Post)