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Incompetence runs amok in the U.S. government
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Large fencing is installed around the U.S. Capitol ahead of the January 20 presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo
Is the U.S. government capable of exercising any degree of competence? Or has incompetence become the new standard? In terms of going to war, the last war America decisively won was World War II. Vietnam, Afghanistan and the second Iraq War were varying degrees of disaster. The incompetence in those wars was not asking the what next question.
In Vietnam, the body count and killing our way to victory became the de facto strategy embodied by search and destroy. The Afghan assault was to bring Osama bin Laden to justice and mutated into nation building. Similarly, after the Iraqi Army was smashed in 2003, the George W. Bush administration never asked or answered what next.