Reply #32: The U.S. is the most dominant military power the world has ever seen. [View All]

[hulka38]

We spend more on defense than nearly the entire world combined. The U.S. military was going up against a petty third world dictator whose army had been utterly crushed just a decade earlier and at the same time been under severe economic sanctions. At the time, the definition of "win" meant get to Baghdad and topple Saddam from power. That was what the simplistic conventional thinkers who dominate Washington thought would constitute victory. By that definition, of course we were going to "win". Did anyone honestly think that the Iraq army was going to stop the U.S. blitz or even slow it down? It took foresight, intellect and some knowledge of the history of the region to understand the dangers of invasion and occupation after the
"win". Hillary failed badly here as well.