Related topics AfghanistanAl QaedaVietnamwar of 1812Barack Obama Advertisement Ruminations, September 23, 2012 What are our political goals in the Middle East? A friend of mine quoted former President Lyndon Johnson as saying, in the summer of 1966, "I'm not going down in history as the first American President who lost a war." The friend laughed as he added that Johnson wouldn't be the first, since the United States lost the War of 1812. Did we lose the war of 1812? By some measures we did: the British occupied and burned Washington, D.C. and they occupied American soil, while we never invaded Britain. In addition, the British won most of the battles in which they faced the Americans. So by...
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