The idea that there ever was world peace is false.
Large scale wars have been avoided since the end of WWII.
The number of U.S. casualties in even the hottest Cold Ward conflicts, such as Korea and Vietnam, have been very small compared to WWII.
The entire world, and the U.S. particularly, has enjoyed unprecedented growth and prosperity since WWII.
The U.S. picked up the global ball after the British Empire could no longer carry it after WWII.
Yes, but the British fought their ‘small wars’ and ,some not so small such as the Sepoy Mutiny, to win as thoroughly as possible.
It's time to huddle and come up with a different play. It's OK for the U.S. to carry the ball, as long as we have blockers. Unfortunately, our offensive line is attempting to tackle us.
“The U.S. picked up the global ball after the British Empire could no longer carry it after WWII. “
And nobody gives a thought about why Britain went broke and no longer carry the ball. Socialism, an aristocracy, endless expensive wars in far flung possessions, followed by streams of third worlders from those colonies into Britain.
It was that way in Rome, and now we are headed down the same path.
Globalism and empire is a dead end. It will leave America broke, flooded with foreigners who laugh at anything America was always about.
To talk about casualties if war, WW2 was very costly but a lot of that was politically motivated. They built bombers and flew them to the Pacific theater and a significant percentage of them never lasted long enough to complete the journey. They put guys in planes and sent them to die in the ocean. Buy more planes! And D-Day. They sent thousands of men into direct machine gun fire with the only plan being the enemy can’t kill all of them so if we send enough men the enemy will run out of bullets. Monday quarterback and all but maybe it could have been done differently.
Afghanistan broke the Soviet Union and it could break us. We should never have gone there in the first place. The 9/11 terrorists were from Saudi Arabia. Osama bin Laden was living in Pakistan. Where is Afghanistan in all this?