Does the West Remember How to Win a War?

The United States and the West have gotten good at losing wars over the past 50 years. Give me liberty or give me death is the celebrated phrase. It's a black and white choice.

The West withdrew in humiliation from Saigon in 1975, Beirut in 1984, Mogadishu in 1993 and Kabul in 2021. We withdrew from Baghdad in 2011, only to return three years later after ISIS swept through northern Iraq and we had to stop it (which, with the help of Iraqis and Kurds, we did). We had small wins against Saddam Hussein in 1991 and Muammar el-Qadd…