Quote (Ghot @ Jun 1 2020 06:54pm)
Containment is one possible solution, yes. But don't kid yourself, the military could mop this up in a day or two, all over the country. And as for Vietnam, I'm not even gonna get into that with you. There were serious extenuating circumstances, that most folk choose not to see. Nam was about credibility, not winning. The US had to prove to the world that they could fight a dumb war in a dumb, socially acceptable way.
Winning was not the objective.
Indeed, America could easily do that, but at what cost? You might end up escalating things where we have road side bombs on your way to Safeway and then we're no better than the Middle East. It's Ilhan Omar's wet dream to make America like that and I don't want that to happen.
I think the best thing to do is to keep it in the cities, preferably the ghettos, and let them starve. Basically, take a page from Israel and see how they confined all the terrorism to the Gaza Strip.
As for Vietnam, I'd say it's a military victory for sure. We obliterated that country but you always have to balance war with diplomacy/politics. America doesn't really know how to fix things once it blows everything up. Damn Democrats...