Posted on 09/03/2011 8:15:14 AM PDT by darkwing104
One of the favorite talking points of the liberal press is to point out that war in Afghanistan is the longest in American History. This month we will take time to remember the events of 9-11 and how it changed our lives. As Americans we must remember that we did not start this war. Regardless of how the media tries to spin it, history proves this is not the longest war in America’s history. This is a myth and the liberals are being downright dishonest about it.
America’s involvement in Vietnam began in the 1950s and an exact date of the beginning of our involvement is still being debated by historians, but according to general consensus “the end date is generally assumed to be 29 Mar 73 – when the last US troops left Viet Nam.” The last American in Vietnam was killed on May 15, 1975 during the Mayaguez incident. The cold war lasted from 1946 to the fall of the Soviet Empire in 1991. 382 American lost their lives due to hostile action between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Korean War began 25 June 1950 and despite an armistice, a cessation of hostilities, a state of war still exists to this day on the peninsula. So it could be argued that these wars are the longest in American History but it’s not even close.
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Good piece.
Coach is right, but he should learn not to put symbols in his article titles when using blogger formats that convert them to URLs.
Coach should also mention the first war on terror, the Barbary war which lasted 36 years.
Excellent article. We forget what our forefather’s did to secure this land for posterity.
Shocking. All the Wars that weren’t Declared are the longest.
Since citizenship wasn't offered to American Indians until 1924, I'd say that the 122 years is off by a bit. 148 years. If you set the measure at religious freedom, it balloons to 197 years with the American Indian Religious Freedom act of 1973.
This is revisionist crap to try to shift the blame off the martyred liberal saint Kennedy (D) to Eisenhower (R).
No such things as “American Indians”. They’re Chinese.
Or there's people who troll.
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