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Originally Posted by Smack dat
Yeah, Iraq and Afghanistan. That went well didn't it?
Quickly? you call 10+ years quick?
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You are confusing a war with a police action.
Let's put things into perspective.
In Afghanistan we removed the government and defeated their military in about a month. Combined with the resulting police action which is still ongoing, the United States has lost a grand total of 2394 men.
In Iraq we removed the government and defeated their military also in about a month. Combined with the police action, we lost a grand total of 4818 men.
Compare that with the twenty million people Russia lost during WWII. Then compare that with the fifty thousand the US lost in Vietnam.
Then keep in mind that a lot of the people we lost in Afghanistan and Iraq were "non hostile" - accidents and what not. Don't believe me? LOL, okay:
iCasualties | Operation Iraqi Freedom | Iraq | Fatalities By Nationality
The government we put in place in Afghanistan is still in place, and the government we put in Iraq is still in place. If fact, the new Iraqi military is fighting ISIS for us.