They're absolutely comparable, notwithstanding their being different. One could just as well argue that it was a lot easier for the military to do drone strikes or call in CAS on the Taliban with zero risk of political blowback. You remind me of someone who was seriously arguing with me in 2004, telling me the Iraq war would not turn into a quagmire because Iraq was arid desert whereas Vietnam was semi-tropical and forested.

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DrewADesign an hour ago | parent [-]

You didn’t counter anything I said. You just said I was wrong and presented a couple of strawmen.

	▲	defrost an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Something you didn't say, something significant, is the US military is made up of US soldiers. A good many of those soldiers will have "Patriot Sympathies" (of many kinds). This will lead to a great deal of information leakage, "lost" equipment going to militias, sabotage, etc. Regardless of oaths to US military, an innate sense of duty to some personal ideal of USA will over weigh for a significant number, and a good percentage of those will remain embedded, organized, and difficult to root out. They will also exist in various numbers from the lowliest boot to the highest general.