Originally Posted by
langleybaston
Maybe. But what would "winning" be like for each side considered separately? This is a vastly complicated subject, but I believe the protagonists and their backers need to spend a while asking the question. We are where we are, but as the old joke says "I wouldn't start from here!"
First rule of warfare, work out your end state, otherwise how will you know if you have won or lost, let alone what you were fighting for.