The new old war in Korea

[--Pete]

Hi,

Yet, even experience didn't stop us from making stupid strategic mistakes in Korea, Vietnam, Beirut, Somalia, Iraq, or Afghanistan. And, even now I doubt we've really learned our lesson yet about letting politics interfere with national security.

I don't think those qualify as strategic mistakes. Almost all the decisions that have led to those mistakes have been political. I think in every one of those, the strategy was clear. The will to implement it was not.

The willingness to gamble with the lives of others in a game whose rules they're ignorant of is one of the most damning traits of modern politicians. Perhaps only those who've been fired at in the line of duty should get a vote in the conduct of a war.

--Pete