Thomas
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Don't you think by writing the bolder part, you are making your current military stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan look like fools? 8 years, thousands of deaths, no significant result, covert support from fundamentalist hardliners continues to go to the terrorists hidden there etc.
Would you prescribe a similar solution as Hiroshima and Nagasaki to these two countries as well?
Others have a point when they (from their perspective) ask you whether this solution is apt for any two countries in this case Iran and Israel where either of them initiates a nuclear raid on the other to quickly make his enemy surrender. After all, unlike Afghanistan and Iraq where militants are the problem, Israel perceives the Iranian government as the problem and not the people, isn't it?
For the amount of troops involved and number of years fought. The U.S. has suffered less deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. Then in any war in history. Heck in past wars more deaths have resulted from single battles.
And while you may look at Iraq as a U.S. failure. The Shia may disagree with you. Saddam is no longer putting them in mass graves. Most of the country has been pacified. Are there still problems with Terrorists?...yes! And Iraqi forces will deal with them.
So let's see......the Iraqi's are back in control of their country and becoming stronger every day. The U.S. has withdrawn from most cities. And looking to be out of Iraq within the next year or so. All to the consternation of the U.S. critics. Who wanted to be proved right that Iraq would be an American failure. And spared no expense in saying so at the start of the conflict.
They are still saying so about Afghanistan. We will see if they are right in the next year or two.