Have we learned nothing about wars in the Middle East?

The United States has been in active combat operations since September 11, 2001, in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, elsewhere on the African continent, and probably in a few places we don’t know about.

John Bolton is a man who once said, "I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost," and, "[B]y the time I was about to graduate in 1970, it was clear to me that opponents of the Vietnam War had made it certain we could not prevail, and that I had no great interest in going there to have Teddy Kennedy give it back to the people I might die to take it away from.”

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