Sarah Paine

fought a limited war for a limited objective.

The limited objective was get Iraqi troops out of Kuwait, restore the Kuwaiti government.

Those were the two really big things.

And then call it a day when you've done those things.

That's what he did.

And it was an incredibly successful war and it went to our heads.

So, right?

Because when you run a successful limited war, it's over very rapidly.

You get stuff with not too much cost and it's done.

So then we try to do the total makeover of another country and excuse me, what right does one country have to do a total makeover on another country?

And then of course, the Russians and Chinese are apoplectic watching us do this.

And that's a problem.

Or you think about Afghanistan, maybe you go in there and you at least boot Osama bin Laden out of the country and then proclaim it victory and leave.

Yeah, okay.

I tried to divert you.

I don't know.

Okay.

And it's also because it's becoming more and more authoritarian.

And yeah, I have no idea on that subject.

And again, it's a social historian.