State Department Official Baffled by Concept of Winning War

But here’s a State Department official being quoted by CNN to whom the whole thing is an entirely alien concept.

I’ve often observed that government officials no longer seem able to grasp the concept of wars or winning them.

“I can’t recall, at least in recent memory, a period in which an escalation or intensification led to a fundamental de-escalation and led to profound stabilization of the situation,” the State Department official told reporters Monday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

No one at the State Department can also recall the last time we won a war.

Winning a war deescalates a conflict.

The US believes Israel has significantly weakened Hezbollah in strikes over the last week but is still working feverishly behind the scenes to try to convince it not to escalate further and launch a ground incursion into Lebanon over concerns the intensified fighting could spark a broader conflict engulfing the wider Middle East, officials told CNN.

Rather than deescalating a war so that the terrorists can attack again, Israel is trying to win a war. 

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