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Originally Posted by GGG
The one thing is true is the Americans did not try to 'win' Iraq, or Afghanistan. They tried to nation build. This is a much larger task. If the goal was to take out the Taliban and Saddam then the US won the wars, they removed the governments in charge.
They could be very successful in doing that in Iran but replacing the government with something better would lead to failure.
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well, unless US foreign policy has shifted (and they may very well have with the civilian leadership), there is no If here...
this goes back to Colin Powell's "pottery barn" philosophy: you break it, you buy it...
That's why any military action has to be understood under that lens that you cannot leave that country until things are stabilized.... One can argue about Obama's schedule in withdrawing, but it was one of the major items on his platform, so pretty tough to not do it...
eventually, Trump is going to have a major problem imo, with the professionals (CIA, Military and FBI) in government... those guys, (comey notwithstanding) are not dogmatic nor are the ideologues... I think Trump will wear one them...