did he forget his team lost? Why does anyone listen to this person for any reason?

American be like "We should kill as many people as possible, including those ostensibly on our side, poison the landscape for generations, and lose anyway".

to Jim Cramer and his valiant attempt to use his "always wrong" Anti-Lathe-of-Heaven (I wonder if there's another way to put that...) to put an end to the conflict without catastrophic escalation

Dude doesn't know a drop of History...

Thats nice deary now get in the pit.