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Originally Posted by the makeout hobo  But in WWII, we had real, verifiable results. We had land seized, islands captured, countries liberated. We had a metric to gauge how the war was going. Now, we don't really have anything except what seems like a forever war. |
First we defeated Japan, occupied Japan until 1950 and then vowed to never let her rebuild her military and then we changed our position and thought it best due to the fears of communist expansion in the region and then back and forth, back and forth... etc. We didn't really have all the answers after 1945 with the growing threat of communism, but we took action though.
The current conflict in Iraq hasn't even scratched the surface yet compared to our wars against communism which ultimately we won. I would argue that the verifiable results like we had in world war 2 are the same as our "forever wars" against communism after 1945. It's too early to measure the conflict in Iraq as a "forever war" and even if it is we clearly have examples showing that if we stay the course we ultimately will prevail. Walls come down, the iron curtain comes down, etc. etc.
It comes with action it seems...