re: Why is the United States abandoning Syrian Kurds in Kobane?

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Now, can any of you Jarheads put aside for one second your juvenile political hackery and tell me why?

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America lacks "the chest", so to speak to win a war. Americans don't want us to be weak. Americans don't want to be seen as doing nothing, but they lack the resolve to finish. They're like a kid who wants to go fishing, but won't bait his own hook, won't take the fish off the hook, won't string up the catch, and refuses cut or clean his catch. All he wants to do is catch it and eat it, but doesn't want the responsibility or hassle of either.

Americans are great at finding and catching wars, but we don't know how to clean or prepare them. The president knows that, so he offers the illusion of "doing something" because he knows anything more would require more effort and resources than the American people would be willing to commit long term.

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Now, can any of you Jarheads put aside for one second your juvenile political hackery and tell me why?




America lacks "the chest", so to speak to win a war.

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Disagree 100%. Americans certainly have "the chest" to win a war. The problem arises when winning a war is not the objective.

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The problem arises when winning a war is not the objective.




Winning a war is not an objective when there is no political will to do what is necessary to win one.

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While this may be true, it has no relevance to the current situation.

Winning the war isn't and never was the objective and it has nothing to do with political will.