Why is this saying "true" about Iraq?

Question

Since the end of WWII we've started 3 conflicts and won zero. We know how to start them, we just don't know how to finish them. The war in Iraq will be like Korea and Vietnam. No win.

Answer 1

True. The conflicts we have started are lose-lose situation we have invaded contries for no reason. No WMDs in Iraq, Vietnam not our battle, Korea well Korea.If this is the case we should invade Myanmar to "help" the people and incourage DEMOCRACY there.

Let's hope this administration ends soon before it's too late and we get ourselves in Iran.

Answer 2

this is not true we technically haven't won or lost Korea we are in an Armistis with North Korea that is holding off on fighting (kind of like having the war on pause). Vietnam we only "lost" because of stupid Liberals who couldn't handle soldiers doing what needed to be done. We are winning the war in Iraq and we can win unless stupid Liberals continue their fight against our troops.

Answer 3

How did we not win them? We may have pulled out but that is not because we were losing. It is because Americans in general cannot stay the course. They start having protests against wars and try to force the government to pull out.

Korean war- South korea is not under North Korea's rule are they. They are not communist. They are their own country and have a democracy.

Vietnam- We may have pulled out of Vietnam but we were kicking *** over there. We lost around 60,0000 troops (which is way to many) and North Vietnam lost around 2,000,000.

Desert Storm- Their is no way this war was lost. I think the whole war only lasted 6 weeks.

Operation Enduring Freedom & Operation Iraqi Freedom- This is a hard war to fight beause we are not fighting an army. We are fighting basically a militia without uniforms. It has been a long fight but we are definetly no losing this war. It is losing its popularity but we are not losing in terms of them beating us.

Answer 4

When did the U.S.A. start a conflict in Korea??

That was a United Nations "Conflict" the U.S.A. was a participant just like the U.K., Canada, France, Turkey, Greece, Ethiopia, Belgium, to name but a few.

And for your info, the Korean War is not over, it's just been paused!!

Research, Research and more Research, Troll!!

Answer 5

I am intrigued mostly by the concept 'win'. If by win you mean someone comes out better off and gains in some way, then in war no-one wins.
The overall loss of life, the massive expenditure, increased taxes and loss of trade caused by conflict means we all lose. Every god damned one of us.
Maybe the winners, in the short term, are the greedy few at the top of this pile who organise and continue these conflicts but I doubt even they gain long term as they have to invent new ways of creating wealth to pay for the next battle. All they do is create more problems that takes more money to stabilise and leads to more conflict.

Jimi Hendrix said something poignant that applies here:
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."

Answer 6

They don't fight American style. They fight 'hit and run style'. In the case of VietNam it was infiltration behinds USA lines via tunnels. In the villages the US didn't know who were NVA and who were local farmers. In Koea and VietNam the frontline never moved so the opposing armies simply annoyed each other around the border but neither siezed the initiative to commit to an all out invasion.

Iraq is even more unwinable. The US is fighting some Iraqis, they are mixed in with the Iraqi population who are not involved. The fighters can be in any crowd or any building, pop up from nowhere and disappear into the crowd.

It must be like trying to fight ghosts who don't stay there long enough for the soldiers to know who to shoot.

The lesson is, don't send a conventional army to fight a guerilla war against people in their own country. If it were like WW2 and one army was sent to totally crush another country then the US army is well qualified to do that but it is not suited to weeding out trouble in a foreign population.

Answer 7

Uh buddy?

We won Korea, the whole point of us going over there is to keep the south democratic and not let communism take over, and there are still 2 Korea's to this day.

Answer 8

Has everyone forgotten that this is not a war with Iraq, it is a war on terror, using more terror. So if we were to win it, it would mean that we've defeated terrorism, does anyone really think that is going to happen, if so it's true what they say"there's one born every minute"!

Answer 9

You need to get a life other than posting on the Miltary forum (and Lord knows how many others).

I think you're full of it with your ten questions a day that are always anti-military. You've even been caught lying. You need to be kicked off Yahoo Answers alltogether. You're rude and dishonest and take advantage of getting a rise out of people that are pro-America and pro-military. You're a jerk.

Answer 10

We stopped Communist aggression in Korea. The Iraqi military has been destroyed.

Now we are fighting cowards who hide among women and children. Cross-dressing wannabe soldiers aren't soldiers, they are cowards.

Answer 11

Actually your wrong.

The US Military Defeated the Iraqi Military.

We are staying there to sight foriegn insurgents(Al Quada)

We are staying the course on that end

We are winning(last reports have both Sunnu and Shiite alike turning on Al Quada) Guess their getting tired of their own people getting killed in terrorist attack

And.....What exactly is your question??????