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{"id":15638,"date":"2012-04-19T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.occasionalplanet.org\/?p=15638"},"modified":"2015-05-06T11:01:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T16:01:25","slug":"afghanistan-has-america-ever-lost-a-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2012\/04\/19\/afghanistan-has-america-ever-lost-a-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: Has America ever lost a war?"},"content":{"rendered":"
If it was possible to assemble all American presidents who have ever presided over a war, it\u2019s conceivable that none of them would acknowledge that, on his watch, America has ever lost a war.<\/p>\n
We do know that Washington won the Revolutionary War, although technically that was prior to him becoming president.\u00a0 Madison would declare that America won the War of 1812, and with the help of future president Andrew Jackson he did.\u00a0 President James K. Polk would be correct in stating that the U.S. won the Mexican-American War, because the U.S. annexed considerable territory, but many Mexicans, Texans, and even New Mexicans say, to this day, that 170 years later the war is not over, and the Mexicans shall yet prevail.<\/p>\n
What is rarely clear is whether America has lost a war \u2013 too many conflicts have ended in ambiguity.\u00a0 What is always clear is that no president wants to be regarded as the first to have lost a war.\u00a0 Just as history is often rewritten by the victors, or the persons who think that they were the victors, contemporary events follow the same pattern.\u00a0 No matter how doubtful it might that the U.S. won a war, the chief executive will call it a \u201cvictory with honor.\u201d<\/p>\n
President Barack Obama is currently facing that problem with Afghanistan.\u00a0 While brave American men and women are fighting against the Taliban and other adversaries of the U.S., the Americans cannot gain the popular support of the Afghani people.\u00a0 Inadvertent events consistently occur that undermine the good will that American is trying to generate.\u00a0 It might be accidental bombings of civilians in villages; it might be burning copies of the Koran, it might be a staff sergeant suffering from PTSD who guns down seventeen innocent civilians in a village.\u00a0 American leaders duly apologize and say that it will never happen again.\u00a0 However, it does.<\/p>\n