BigOl64 wrote on Jul 18
th, 2016 at 2:21pm:
tickleandrose wrote on Jul 18
th, 2016 at 2:09pm:
If you look at history, the US superpowers have actually not won a war since World War 2. This is because, wars are no longer fought in the conversional way anymore. There is this thing called asymetrical warfare. This is exactly like Vietnam war and Korean war. They do not have to win to win.
And yes, you can kill people. But you cant kill every single person, as its such a large, remote area. When pushed to the edge of death, even an animal will bite back at you. Plus, what is that going to do to the moral of the troops? What of the soldiers you sent to kill civilians come back with severe PTSD. What if they flip ? Are you going to kill them and their family as well? I mean, just down to basics. Will you be able to pull the trigger on women and children cowering and begging for mercy? Seriously?
You just described the way this war is currently being waged; and you are correct it will achieve nothing; that is not total war. As you rightly pointed out the last war that had a decisive victory was WWII and that was the last time Total war was waged on a large scale.
If you want to wine you really have to want to win, fart-arsing about like homos in a flower shop isn't going to work. So we either win this war or we wait patiently to lose it
In that case, then you are looking at ... oh I dont know - a world scale war. I mean, countries like Russia is never going to sit back, and watch you destroy the entire Syria / Iraq / Iran. The Russians will ensure that US will be mired in that hellhole for decades, at the cost of trillions, without even direct declaration of war just like what the CIA did to them in Afghanistan.
As the US is mired in middle East. There will be renewed taliban and AQEADA insurgency in Afghanistan and Pakistan. And while this is happening, other countries will be getting their hands on their own things. E.g. North Korea will encroach in the south. China will exert more in the pacific ocean. The US is powerful at the moment, but it cannot deal with everyone like what happened to Germany.
Your all out war will bankrupt the western democracies, bringing more death and destruction, and in its wake, more extremist governance. It will set back humanity for hundreds of years.