Why do cons refuse to accept that winning in Iraq has nothing to do with whose cause is "more just"?

Question

Who wins in a conflict is determined by who uses the superior tactics. It has virtually nothing to do with whose cause is "more just".

Just like everything else in nature, the survival of the fittest principle favors the party using the superior tactics. Morality has nothing to do with which lion kills the other lion.

And in this instance, history has repeatedly shown that an inferior party will defeat a technologically superior enemy in a guerilla-type war of attrition on the inferior party's home turf. The German barbarians' defeat of the Roman Empire, the American Revolution, Hitler's defeat in Russia, the Vietnam War, the Russians' defeat in Afghanistan...these are all examples.

It's got almost nothing to do with whose cause is "more just". EVERYONE in a conflict believes that theirs is the "more just" cause, or else they wouldn't be in the conflict in the first place. It's just a subjective perception that everyone in a conflict must have in order to be there at all.

And believing that somehow you're different, that you'll buck the tide of human history because "your cause is so just", is simply arrogant egocentrism.

Pride goeth before a fall.

Answer 1

I can accept that and I think most conservatives realize that winning a war is not about who is right and who is wrong. It just so happens that we are in the right and at least we have that going for us, if the rest of the war is difficult. It gives us a reason to keep fighting when things get tough.

Answer 2

Just because winning in Iraq has nothing to do with being "more just" doesn't mean that we aren't more just.

We do our best to minimize civilian deaths while the enemy targets civilians & uses them as sheilds! So who is more just?

When we talk about "we must win because our cause is just" that is motivational in nature trying to encourage people to give their best for a just cause.

As good as our motivation may be, it isn't as strong as theirs. Our side is willing to risk their lives for the sake of freedom. Their side takes glory in purposely causing their own death for the sake of their God (or at least for what they THINK their God wants!) while taking out as many "infidels" as they can as well as anyone who may be near them.