Pacific Views

Losing Harder

Slactkivist Fred Clark talks about a hypothetical invasion of Canada in a post riffing off of Ret. Lt. Gen. Odom's statement that, "There is no way to win a war that is not in your interests." Bolding mine:

... A certain kind of leader would be unable to grasp that. They wouldn't be able to see beyond our mightier military and superior firepower, beyond our unrivaled capacity for killing people and blowing stuff up, beyond our unbroken string of battles "won in the field." Obsessed with all of these impressive facts, such leaders would convince themselves that we could turn the corner and rescue victory from defeat with one more surge of battles and bombs.

But that's not the way to win a war that is not in your interests. There is no way to win a war that is not in your interests.

Eventually, the nature of reality would begin to sink in with even the most obstinate and obtuse. They would realize that, since victory was not an option, more battles and more bombs would only constitute losing harder. ...

Go read the whole thing. That is all.