Does it seem like the only victor of any battle is the side that fights for the right reasons?

Question

USA looses to Vietcong

Russia looses to Al Qaeda

Israel looses to Lebanese militia

isn't the "defender's advantage" more than something tactical?

Answer 1

Will of the people and political realities are the reasons for the results of your examples.

The US lost because the American people lost the will to fight.

Russia didn't fight Al Quaida, they fought the Mujahedin, which was a more loose association.  Russia lacked the will to wage a long conflict with what it saw as very limited gain for winning.  The political realities.

Israel could have annihilated Lebanon had not it been restrained by American pressure and the threat of world wide condemnation.  Some day, Israel may grow tired of being the world's scapegoat and ignore the political realities and just let the chips fall where they may.

Right and wrong had nothing to do with any of this.

Answer 2

History is written by the victor.

When England invaded Ireland hundreds of years ago they had us conquered for 800 years.

Answer 3

No... good often looses as 2 of 3 of your examples illustrate.

Answer 4

USA did not loose. We surrendered. Vietcong did not fight for the right reasons. No only in recent history has a good democratic republic has been strong enough to beat the evil around them. If evil lets good be the good will try to control the evil. If the good let the evil be. The evil will destroy the good. Look at the Christians in Rome. Hitler in Germany. They won many wars against good people Poland, France, and other European nations. Where those countries fighting for the wrong reasons?.  

Answer 5

Militarily, the US defeated North Vietnam, a large contingent of the US population led to the political loss there. The men that fought there won that war, they are hero's in my eyes. Russia, well F*ck them. The Israelis are still a nation to be reckoned with in the Middle East, they are the most powerful country, and they will be here when the rest have fallen. They are the most feared country in that region of the world, and why? because they just want to exist.