Based on our history, yes we love war.PhiloBeddo » 01 Jul 2023, 12:59 pm » wrote: ↑ We should have a plan for war against everybody. Filed away just in case. Being prepared is a good thing.
Not just us. Some more some less.
The day that happened, I remember being 17 and watching the fall of Saigon in April 1975 on television when my mother came home, and started cheering.Sumela » 01 Jul 2023, 1:20 pm » wrote: ↑ Watching Biden's military getting chased out
of Afghanistan was thrilling.
20 years....3 trillion$.....and then chased out![]()
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Joe didn't quit....he got beat. Chased out.Bruce » 01 Jul 2023, 1:55 pm » wrote: ↑ The day that happened, I remember being 17 and watching the fall of Saigon in April 1975 on television when my mother came home, and started cheering.
I said Mama, America has just lost the only war we’ve ever lost, why are you cheering?
She said because we’ll not ever send another young boy like you over to the other side of the world to fight somebody else’s battles for a many a year to come.
We should have stayed home, in the first place.
As for Joe quitting in Afghanistan,,,,,
Who wants to be the first one to go back?
Any way you say it, not one more American boy is going to die for democracy in Afghanistan.
Correct the Empire crumbling. Its power lessening.Bruce » 01 Jul 2023, 2:05 pm » wrote: ↑ Any way you say it, not one more American boy is going to die for democracy in Afghanistan.
None should have.
Leave those people to fight their own battles.
The Vietnamese whipped our asses, too.
Myself, I believe the only reason they won is because it wasn't really a war; it was a military equipment disposal/test so they could build bigger and better.......and what's a few human lives to feed the Military Industrial Complex!Bruce » 01 Jul 2023, 2:05 pm » wrote: ↑ Any way you say it, not one more American boy is going to die for democracy in Afghanistan.
None should have.
Leave those people to fight their own battles.
The Vietnamese whipped our asses, too.
The PHONY WAY that GW Bush started, based upon false inteligence!Sumela » 01 Jul 2023, 1:20 pm » wrote: ↑ Watching Biden's military getting chased out
of Afghanistan was thrilling.
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Yes...and then Bammy accelerated with MORE TROOPS.nuckinfutz » 01 Jul 2023, 3:42 pm » wrote: ↑ The PHONY WAY that GW Bush started, based upon false inteligence!
The NEOCON'S DReam!![]()
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BUT! The neocons are basically a Rethuglican outfit! Wolfowitz, Cheney, etc. etc.Signatories to Statement of PrinciplesSumela » 01 Jul 2023, 3:46 pm » wrote: ↑ Yes...and then Bammy accelerated with MORE TROOPS.![]()
Then started to two new wars in Libya and Syria.
Neocons are thick in the DNC.
The most embarrassing moment in US military history. Ran out by a bunch of cave dwelling, rock farmers and turn them into a military force to be reckoned with, with $100 billion in world-class American military equipment.Sumela » 01 Jul 2023, 1:20 pm » wrote: ↑ Watching Biden's military getting chased out
of Afghanistan was thrilling.
20 years....3 trillion$.....and then chased out![]()
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It was china that kicked our proverbial arses...Bruce » 01 Jul 2023, 2:05 pm » wrote: ↑ Any way you say it, not one more American boy is going to die for democracy in Afghanistan.
None should have.
Leave those people to fight their own battles.
The Vietnamese whipped our asses, too.
And in addition to Israel, undoubtedly a major factor, there was the Iran Hostage CrisisFOS » 01 Jul 2023, 6:15 pm » wrote: ↑ In a realpolitik sense there is no reason the usa should need to have conflict with Iran. Certainly it does nothing for the American people. Indeed...good relations with Iran would reduce gas prices. So why do we want war with Iran?
one reason. Israel.