> has easily won every armed conflict they've entered into in the past 50 years That's just false. Ok, maybe you don't count Vietnam, because the US "entered"

> has easily won every armed conflict they've entered into in the past 50 years That's just false. Ok, maybe you don't count Vietnam, because the US "entered" there in the '60s, but Afghanistan was a sure loss and I'd say the same for Iraq (seeing how it's now in Iran's sphere of influence, which it wasn't under Saddam). Yes, they might have won some tactical battles, most probably all of them, come to think of it, but the wars themselves were lost.