Has the USA ever lost a war?

[Vlad the Impaler]

Since WWII- The Big stuff
Korean War- At Best, a Draw.
Vietnam War- A pathetic Loss
1993 Gulf war- A Victory, in the last Focused War we were involved in. The smart Bush laid out an objective(Getting Iraq out of Kuwait), met the Objective, and got the hell out. A model for how an effective leader gets in, and out, of a War.
Iraq war- A pathetic Defeat. Handed over the biggest Middle Eastern deterrent to Iran, right to Iran, created Terrorist Groups(ISIS, etc) that didn't exist. Obama foolishly got us re-involved, refusing to learn from history.
Afghanistan war- A Pathetic defeat, that Obama cannot extricate himself from.
Drone War on Whomever in the Middle East- A Pathetic defeat that creates many more new terrorists than those it destroys, not to mention the innocent people on our side that it kills.

The Korean War was not a draw. If the US did not intervene, North Korea would be control over the entire Penninsula. Not that I would care; more concentration camps

 

[mountain]

The Confederates got their ass whooped and they are technically part of the USA... even though they shouldn't be. But aside from that, we've lost our policing efforts. Definitely haven't lost any necessary war pivotal for our safety.

Care to expand on that profoundly ignorant comment?

 

[The Guesser]

The Korean War was not a draw. If the US did not intervene, North Korea would be control over the entire Penninsula. Not that I would care; more concentration camps

While initially the US got involved to protect South Korea, it expanded into taking over NK and unifying the Peninsula. Initial objective succeeded, expanded idea failed, Ref Mills Lane would call it a draw.

 

[Vlad the Impaler]

It was not a draw. North Korea basically had South Korea defeated until US interveaned and drove them back. Kim Il Sung at this time was just a Russian figurehead. To this day the North Koreans hate Americans and this is why

 

[JohnnyMac]

The Bay of Pigs invasion didn't go to well.

 

[Akillies]

 

[StevieRay]

War is Hell

 

[buddyboy]

it's not a loss if you still exist as a country with the same constitution.

 

[neverbend]

The Confederates got their ass whooped and they are technically part of the USA... even though they shouldn't be. But aside from that, we've lost our policing efforts. Definitely haven't lost any necessary war pivotal for our safety.

Pure nonsense. IMO in the war of Northern Aggression the Confederate States didn't lose the USA did.

Furthermore if Lee still had Jackson at his side as he did at his stunning victories near Fredericksbiurg & Chancellorsville shortly before his adventurous route to Pennsylvania the out come may have been different. In the West it was Jefferson Davis faith in pedestrian leaders who performed so poorly that made the south hopes so reliant on The Army of Northern Virginia.' After his surrender Lee was asked who was the finest southern general and he promptly replied 'A man I never met Nathan Bedford Forrest'" I got the feeling that if Forrest had higher command in the West it wouldn't have been such an easy task for the North to over run & the outcome could have been different.
Afterall the South didn't lose the civil War, America did.