Can you name one country that has mounted the kind of long drawn out

[KlatooBNikto]

wars and expeditions we have done in Vietnam or Iraq.?

[amber dog democrat]

1. France in Algeria in the 50s.

and maybe the Erupoean states during the third Crusade.

[Flagg]

4. Algeria had been a part of France since the 1870's

The Algeria war in the 1950's was disgraceful but it's not exactly the same type of situation.

[Retired AF Dem]

2. Soviet Union

Couldn't do in ten years what we accomplished in a couple of months in Afghanistan.

[deadeye]

3. the iran- iraq war lasted most of the 80's

and killed roughly a million total on both sides.

[amber dog democrat]

5. Maybe the Brittish in Afgahnistan in the 1830s

If we had even worse leadership, it could turn out that way.
You are right about Algeria.