[anymouse]

a scenario that has been played out repeatedly over the last 50 years in any number of countries around the world.

Yes, the rest of us call that the Cold War.

We won. Do you have a problem with that?

[Alberta's Child]

Some of us call it "business as usual," since it really began far earlier than 50 years ago. The first case of U.S. military intervention outside North America was the Spanish-American War in the Philippines, which took place before the Soviet Union even existed.