Real Goal of Iraq War in 2003: Oil and Inciting Terrorism to Create Permanent Conflict

Steven Jonas @ Buzzflash - US Wars? Wins? Losses? Aren't those answers self-evident? Well, if the objectives of the various wars are taken into account, indeed they aren't. Let us start with Vietnam.

The standard interpretation of the US War on Vietnam is that the US lost it. The classic picture is of that last helicopter taking off from the roof of the soon-to-be former US Embassy in Saigon. But if one considers the original US objectives the intervention-to-become-war in Southeast Asia, it was actually a win.  Read more.