We're Seeing "Great News" from a Battlefield Again



Being old like I am, news is repetitive and a little boring. What bores me now are Pete Hegseth and President Trump bragging about the damage done to Iran. To hear them tell it, Iran has no equipment left to retaliate. How does Iran continue to fight? How can it send bombs to countries that have sided with the U.S.? History tells us the answer. 

During the Vietnam war, the news was the same. Big advances by the U.S. The "kill number" was big. So many more North Vietnamese were being killed than U.S. soldiers, a successful victory for the U.S. was inevitable. Our airplanes destroyed bridges and road used to supply North Vietnam's troops. This meant they would have no weapons or even food. 

The North knew how to offset U. S. military power. They outfitted bicycles as tiny cargo carriers. When a road was bombed a small path was made and the bicycles moved through. They built tunnels safe from bombs. This went on until we were defeated and flew everyone out in a hurry.

Neither Hegseth nor Trump has an explanation as to why Iranians have not surrendered and why they seem to have no intention of doing so. They build cheap simple drones that are too slow and too low for our advanced radar to find. These keep going into our ally countries and kill people.

Desert Storm was another one. We raced across the desert only to be left confounded for a decade and they left. There was good news every day for a while. Eventually there was bad news every day. I'm guessing we will hear from Hegseth eventually, "Our success has slowed. Now it's just a matter of cleaning up what resistance remains." If history tells us anything, this cleanup will go on for years.  

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