Those who back Trump’s war against Iran argue that the United States has defeated Iran because it has killed many Iranians and destroyed so much of its military and civilian infrastructure. As we’ve learned in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, however, outkilling the other side is hardly a guarantee of military victory.
Outkilling to Victory
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The TMI Show" talk show. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Re “As we’ve learned in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, however, outkilling the other side is hardly a guarantee of military victory”: The problem, of course, is that the aforementioned “we” apparently does not include the civilian and military personnel critical to the war making who have only bothered to “learn” the graft and corruption scheme of the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Complex swinging door.
The “we” who have learned about the “outkilling” issue do not appear to have learned that it would be cheaper just to pay the MICC grifters their generous sinecures directly thus avoiding the considerable costs of continuous mass killing that comes right off the top of their tax bills. Thus it is hardly a surprise that, for most Americans, a more “nuanced” realization of the significance their implicit, consensual role in the mass killing of others seems also not to apply.