[SeelaypeKet]

So OK, for a trillion dollars we get a group who can either kill everone in a country or is consistently defeated by what amount to fucking bandits. Fer Crissake we started this country by winning a guerilla war and since then have lost every one like that we've gotten involved in. I think it comes down to our national character. Americans root for the underdog even while we're doing our best to kill him. No matter how strong we might become or justified we might be we don't like being the bad guys

It certainly does involve national character. Too many Americans live the plush life without realizing that sometimes brave men and women with very lethal weaponry must use that weaponry to kill others. They can not equate the killing of others (which they abhor) with the pampered existence they enjoy (to which they feel entitled). There is no war we can not win. There are only wars which those with no stomach force us not to win.