Why is America trying to teach Israel about terrorism?
For decades, the United States has possessed the world’s most powerful military, capable of destroying armies, command structures and governments with extraordinary speed. But winning battles is not the same as winning wars.The real test of victory is whether a country achieves the objective for which lives and treasure were spent. By that measure, Washington should be cautious about telling Israel how to confront Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.Vietnam should have taught Americans a lesson years ago. More than 58,000 Americans died, yet failed to prevent South Vietnam from falling to communist control. America withdrew, and Saigon fell.The 1991 Gulf War had the opposite outcome. America set the limited objective of expelling Iraqi forces from Kuwait, accomplished it and stopped.But Iraq later became another failure. Removing dictator Saddam Hussein from power in 2003 took weeks. What followed lasted more than two decades. Washington envisioned a stable democratic Iraq. Instead came insurgency,…
The article argues that the United States, despite its military power, has a history of failing to achieve its strategic objectives in post-9/11 wars, such as in Iraq and Afghanistan, due to a misunderstanding of ideological adversaries. It highlights that America spent trillions of dollars and thousands of lives without eradicating terrorism, as groups like the Taliban, ISIS, and Iranian-backed militias persisted. The author contends that Washington's approach of trying to impose Western thinking on ideological extremists, who view conflict differently and use agreements as tactical delays, has been ineffective. Therefore, the article concludes that America should not "lecture Israel or twist its arm" on how to confront groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran, as Israel, being in its homeland, cannot afford the same strategic miscalculations and understands that "A signed document does not necessarily change an enemy’s ideology."
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