Ockham's Razor

I thought I remembered what "Occam's Razor" meant, but I looked it up on Wiki to be sure. The first thing I learned was that the original spelling was "Ockham's", but somebody came along later and changed it. They are always changing stuff like that just to confuse us, you know. The next thing I learned is that Ockham didn't even invent it, and that modern interpretations of it are probably incorrect.

From Wiki: This principle goes back at least as far as Aristotle, who wrote "Nature operates in the shortest way possible."^[27] The idea of parsimony or simplicity in deciding between theories, though not the intent of the original expression of Ockham's Razor, has been assimilated into our culture as the widespread layman's formulation that "the simplest explanation is usually the correct one."^[27]

So what has this to do with the U.S. Government losing both the Korean and the Vietnam wars? Well, we could postulate a whole list of reasons why the greatest military power in the world, which had recently won a world war (with a little help from their friends) against two other great military powers, could not subsequently win wars against two backward countries the size of New Jersey. The simplest explanation, however, is that they did it on purpose............Ipso facto, case closed.