Well what we do is learn from our mistakes . . . hunker down for the long-haul . . . grow our force size and capability to meet the foreseen needs of the situation . . . and adjust and overcome.
Defeat is not an option . . . the impact of a collapse of the Nation-State of Iraq on the region would have implications that would last dozens of years after that event. All those impacts would be foreseen as a negative on US interests in the region.
As with other situations, the US has the resources, if it chose to focus its resources, to avoid defeat, and achieve a marginal victory . . . if only we would have the willpower to avoid defeat.
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"The Federation needs men like you, doctor. Men of conscience. Men of principle.
Men who can sleep at night... You're also the reason Section Thirty-one exists --
someone has to protect men like you from a universe that doesn't share your
sense of right and wrong."
-Sloan, Section Thirty-One
 
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