IMO...since the end of the Korean War, the US has adopted a "No win" policy no matter whose side we choose to be on.
think about it: WWII...we, and our allies, kicked the slats out from under Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and Fascist Italy in less than four years.
Korea: an armistice after three years of bloody warfare...IIRC, nearly 80,000 dead Americans and nearly 10,000 MIA...over 7,000 STILL missing...congress would not allow a 'victory'
Vietnam: fifteen years of war...that's right...fifteen years...don't believe it? look it up...our first "Advisors" entered 'Nam in 1957 and that was the first recorded combat casualty recorded there...i was in that part of the world in '62 as an "Observer"...that status did NOT stop the VC bullets...
we finally withdrew in 1973 after no clear VICTORY...just a "Pull out"...fifty-eight thousand dead and billions of dollars for what? congress, clearly, had a "No win" policy...
first Iraq war: "Mission accomplished"...true...we did eject the Iraqi army from Kuwait...but...we should have eradicated Saddam then so we wouldn't have to have go in there again.
while it's true there were some small victories between then, the end of WWII and now, Grenada and Panama, those were hardly major engagements on the same scale as Korea, Iraq, VN, and Afghanistan.
so...what's my point, you ask?
my point is: if, mind you IF, we have to go to war...go to war prepared to WIN...once you are victorious, then, and only then, may you afford generosity.
BTW: IMO Barry is not of any particular belief...his support of homosexuality is proof he is not Christian. Christianity does not support, advocate, or condone, homosexuality; it advocates that one REPENT from homosexuality. Islam dictates the death penalty for homosexuality.