re: Is the South China Sea on the brink of war?

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Probably some, but I'd disagree with the bold part of your sentence.

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Sadly, I would have a hard time characterizing it as anything but a loss. Whatever goals we set for that war, we certainly did not accomplish them.

Have no doubt, if we had the political willpower we could have easily won that war. But proxy wars tend to go that way.

Unfortunately, it was a loss. Our troops didn't lose the war though, the American people did.