likeaforest@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoTrump Just Lost a War for America — No One's Done That Since Nixonwww.dailykos.comexternal-linkmessage-square36linkfedilinkarrow-up1216arrow-down12cross-posted to: conservative@sh.itjust.works
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minus-squareDomeGuy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 months agoThe “global war on terror” ended with a rather dramatic raid that killed bin laden. And the war part of Gulf war 2 was an obvious victory. But winning a peace is a fuckton harder. And we haven’t done that since Vietnam.
minus-squareJay101@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down4·edit-23 months ago The “global war on terror” ended with a rather dramatic raid that killed bin laden. No, they executed an accused without a trial or prosecution. In India, they had a multiyear trial before the terrorist was executed.
The “global war on terror” ended with a rather dramatic raid that killed bin laden. And the war part of Gulf war 2 was an obvious victory.
But winning a peace is a fuckton harder. And we haven’t done that since Vietnam.
No, they executed an accused without a trial or prosecution. In India, they had a multiyear trial before the terrorist was executed.