Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University and an author.
He joins The Joe Pags Show to talk about America’s endless wars.
“When did we stop winning wars?” asked Pags. “It used to be we would want to win. There would be a path to victory, a strategy to win. After World War 2 we stopped winning wars.”
“Yes. What we call winning now would be called a stalemate back then,” explained Hanson. “In Korea we saved South Korea, but we didn’t unite the country. Everything after that has been downhill.”
“There’s a hubris of the modern age that we feel we’ve transcended the laws of war. The laws of war are ancient. If you want to win with a long-term resolution, then you have to defeat and humiliate the enemy,” he added. “We did that in World War 2.”
Watch the full exchange above.