Winning is everything

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Winning is Everything

In his short essay , Winning 's Everything , author Henry Allen asserts that our leaders in the Iraq War have all the skills necessary to wage war except how to win . A close examination of his reasoning shows that Allen does know what he 's talking about however , he does not do an effective job of swaying his reader to empathize with his reasoning . While Allen points out the many failures in attempts to win wars since WWII such as Vietnam

, Korea , and Somalia , he fails to really pinpoint exactly what has gone wrong . Simply stating that our leaders don 't know how to win is not a strong enough argument . He backs this up by stating that our leaders have always been good at winning in such settings as academia that 's how they became leaders , by being intelligent and by winning however , they lack a backbone that a fiercer environment , perhaps in sports or the active military could have provided them . He seems to be implying that since WWII our country has been run by a group of pansies who simply aren 't tough enough . Perhaps he is right , but he certainly didn 't prove it . In fact , Allen strays from his original point by taking a more sarcastic tone a few paragraphs into his essay Why fault them , he states , rhetorically giving a false sense of sympathy to the leaders who no one seems to want to blame for our military losses . Here the focus shifts responsibility from the leaders to the country as a whole . While the essay was a good read and Allen makes very good points regarding America 's history during the past half-century ' when it comes to winning wars , he failed to prove that the war in Iraq is run by leaders who have yet to learn that in war we absolutely have to win

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