From Bart in Brussels: "As'ad, the argument
saying "we could've won the war if the politicians hadn't backstabbed the
army", i.e. we lost because the "political will" was not there,
is exactly the argument made by Hitler and other military types after Germany
lost WWI and which was adopted by the nazis, and which was their argument to
abolish the (Weimar) democracy and install the fascist dictatorship. Now
there's a parallel with today's US to think about..."