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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

And this is a war the U.S. will not or cannot win for many reasons. Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was correct when he warned that anyone considering fighting a land war in Asia “needed to have his or her mind examined.”

It is one of the classic blunders, after all, the second being never going against a Sicilian when death is on the line.