re: World War Three Watch Party Thread - Subcontinent Edition!

Hopefully we stay out of this. With retard Bush long gone, I have hope.

Republican president's make this about us. Had it with being the world's police.

Listing the US's major involvement in wars since 1900 for the US the democrats are at the front more than the republicans.

WW1 we shouldn't have been involved - Democrat Woodrow Wilson

WW2 we had to get involved but still - Democrat Roosevelt.

Korea we shouldn't have been involved - Democrat Truman

Vietnam we shouldn't have been involved - Democrats Kennedy sent the first advisers and LBJ with the gulf of Tonkin BS.

War on terror - we needed to go to Afghanistan to find the frickers who hit us. Iraq was bullshite though. - Republican Bush Jr

There are lots of little frickeries on both sides but Obama and Clinton had the majority of them.

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War on terror - we needed to go to Afghanistan to find the frickers who hit us.

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I've said this in another thread. But, we were going into Afghanistan no matter who was President after 9/11.

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I've said this in another thread. But, we were going into Afghanistan no matter who was President after 9/11.

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No President in American history wouldn't have gone in there.

Hell, Teddy Roosevelt and a few others would have gone there in person to hunt down Bin Laden.

As for some of our other wars in the last hundred some odd years...

Unrestricted submarine warfare along with the Zimmerman telegraph brought us into WWI. Kaiser Wilheim had a remarkable ability to turn neutral countries against him.

We had to fight WWII even though we really didn't want to.

The US had signed on to defend South Korea, we were stuck with that one... and its probably a good thing we were. South Korea is a modern, thriving nation that we do trade with every day. North Korea is North Korea. One is a better outcome for the US then the other.

Vietnam is tricky. We went there to stop the so called domino effect of Communism in SE Asia... which actually did happen after we withdrew. Now the Vietnamese are probably our closest allies in SE Asia. Go figure.

We had a lot of "brush" wars, which you will get when you are the big dog world power. The UK fought a ton of them back in their day.

Iraqi was a mistake and probably the high water mark of the interventionist school of Republicans. The sad thing is... it could have worked. We didn't screw up the initial war, we screwed up, big time, the occupation. If we had gone with the plan Colin Powell and the State Department came up with (basically copying verbatim what we did in Germany and Japan) we might have gotten out of that one just fine. Obviously we choose a different path and there you have it.

Syria is on Obama. He had a chance to snuff ISIS out when it was just getting started and didn't do it. It did, however, give us the long delayed throw down between American and Russian forces when we kicked the ever living dog mess out of them during an attack on one of our bases.

Here is the thing... that seems like a lot of wars. And it is compared to most countries. But the US has been at war for most of its existence. Whether defending our interests from European powers (or outright molesting them like we did Spain), kicking our neighbors in the nuts (Mexico would like half their country back thank you), or the hundred some odd years of war with the Native Americans we've constantly been in a war before World War I rolled around.

We are a warlike country. We like war. That may be changing but the US is not only the 800 pound gorilla but its an 800 pound gorilla that really doesn't mind putting the weenie to you.

Smh

You poor

Lynda Carter is better