“Those sure worked out really well. That there is one heck of a track record.”
Being you must be a foreigner, I’ll forgive you for not knowing much about American history. You are cherry-picking American history to prove your point. Let’s look at some more. Let’s ask the French, the Indians, the Redcoats, more Indians, the Redcoats again, Santa Anna and the Mexicans, Jefferson Davis and the CSA, more Indians, Spain, Kaiser Willhelm and the Central Powers, Hitler and the Axis, North Korea (we kicked their asses until China intervened) how fighting the USA turned out for them. Saddam Hussein and Iraq two times. The others you cite were political decisions, not military defeats.
Yep. I agree with your history.
- Indians - More Indians. We just walked in and invaded, took their land, made 'em walk to Oklahoma, sent them to reservations, and all kinds of wonderful moves -- 'cause we could.
-Hitler & Axis. Oh sure. The US did that all alone after we jumped in to save 'em two years late! Forget the other European countries that fought Hitler. And guess what country drove the Germans out of their country and finally entered Berlin to end the war?? It wasn't the US. Wanna guess? And we did that all by ourselves -- no help at all.
-Korea. Yep. We kicked their asses. That's why here we are 75 years after kicking their asses that the country is still divided at the 38th parallel. Yep. That's really winning.
-Iraq & Saddam.There you go again. We invented/lied about WMDs to invade a country that was 80% smaller than we were. Oh look. We killed about a million of them and spent trillions -- FOR WHAT? Where is Iraq today? Yep, they're really close allies -- NOT.
And finally, maybe you should learn a little history. The Romans fought and captured huge swaths of land -- until they didn't. Not to cherry pick, but if you can't see that we've done nothing in the last 60 or so years other than pick on those little bitty countries like Cuba, Panama, Granada, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and more with gusto then you must be blind or dumb.
Please explain how spending ourselves into bankruptcy for all that effort, which has mostly been debacles, has worked out? And you want to send more of our kids to go and fight for this. Well, you go for it. That's not what I want. It's high time we focused on our own and not saving the planet from made-up threats just 'cause we can. Cause we're about to go broke doing it!