I thought the American game plan was to helicopter off the embassy roof, after pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the more corrupt and/or fanatical elements of whatever society our messianic Hollywood complex is trying to remake, or our corporations are trying to rob?

Why will this time be any different?

This time next year, we will be in the primaries and either this war will have gone nuclear, or Russia is going to own the eastern half of the country. What candidate wants that hanging around their neck?

The next song and dance to distract the proles is shaking our fists at China, for letting the banks ship all our industry over there.

If you want to understand history, look at what's happening, not what people say.