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Originally Posted by Quick Enough
"Every war after WWII," How many was that?
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Depends on how ambiguously the term war is used. But if we consider the war on terror a war, I'd say the term is quite ambiguous.
There was Korea, which was a tie. Vietnam, which was a disaster and was started based on a lie. There was Lebanon, which was a religious war (which means it was stupid). The failure that was the Bay of Pigs, our involvement in the Dominican Civil War, our business in Panama (which was the only possibly justifiable war in the last 70 years if you ask me), and the Gulf War. And that just up into the end of the 20th century, and technically I skipped a few things. If you count the Cold War as a war, we could add the list of short sighted decision that were made to stick it to the Soviets.
Any war that happened after 2000 was 100% justified and all just a part of the US federal governments effort to appease the war industry and the various corporations that benefit. Of course, we claim it was for human rights but any intelligent person can see that we clearly don't care about that. If we did, our focus on the Middle East seems pointless, as there are places that are far worse off that are largely ignored.
So yeah, there were quite a few pointless war.
Does the war on drugs count as a war? That's certainly been about a wasteful and irresponsible from a fiscal standpoint as an actual war, so it may as well be on the list.
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