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Eko

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4. We won the Iraq war.

Reply to Sneederbunk (Reply #2)

Sun Oct 23, 2022, 07:52 PM

Oct 2022

There wasn't even a Afghanistan war to win and as for Vietnam US public support for the war waned, the South Vietnamese government was very corrupt and didn't have a government that would last. The Korean war is also one you could mention. Even with the best military though you are not going to win everything and as a smart man named Beau likes to say, our military is great at winning wars, but not at winning the peace.

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