Listing some trivial facts that help to understand why a government with the most powerful army in the world has been unable to win in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and, after 11 weeks, not only failed to defeat the ayatollahs of Iran, but also managed the feat of granting them control of one of the most important areas on the planet.
It is said that a Japanese soldier imprisoned in WWII, when asked which were the best armies fighting in the jungle, replied: the Japanese and the Australians. When asked about the Americans, he said that the Americans didn't know how to fight in the jungle; they destroyed the jungle.
Eighty years later, the same mindset leads Americans to raze entire city blocks and use multimillion-dollar missiles to shoot down $50,000 drones, and inspires the army of their Israeli disciples to destroy tens of thousands of homes and kill tens of thousands of civilians, only to have to do it repeatedly soon.
Donald Trump once criticized the «interventionists» for «intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves», which was an avant la lettre good explanation for his own failure to anticipate that the ayatollahs would be willing to let themselves and their people be killed.
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