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Probably because the US hasn't had a foreign army on its soil since like...1812
by kesselvon 10y ago
Probably because the US hasn't had a foreign army on its soil since like...1812
- avn2109 10y agoPearl Harbor, although pedantically maybe that was just an air force/navy instead of an army.
- lostlogin 10y agoPedantically? If we take your new definition, how many countries is the US currently invading with its airforce (particularly drones)? It isn't invading them because it's armies aren't in them and that's what the term "on its soil" means.
- paulddraper 10y agoWell, the parent was talking about _bombing_, so Pearl Harbor is a reasonable point.
- simplicio 10y agoThe Japanese also used ground troops to take over several Aleutian Islands during WWII.
- dragonwriter 10y agoPancho Villa's raid on Columbus, NM, a few decades earlier was clearly an army, and well after 1812.
- simplicio 10y agoBut you don't need a foreign army around to launch bombing raids. The Doolittle raid (US bombing of Tokyo in response to Perl Harbor) was only a few months in the future when the Pentagon was started.
- krallja 10y ago> Perl Harbor That's when Ruby overtook Larry Wall's language, right?
- yellowapple 10y agoYeah, but then Larry dropped a couple nukes on Matz.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Probably because the US hasn't had a foreign army on its soil since like...1812 Inserting the clearly implied "hostile" before "foreign army", that's still off by more than a century, since we had one in 1916, even if we only consider the CONUS and so exclude some things in WWII.
- kesselvon 10y agoThe US faced a hostile foreign army on CONUS in 1916?
- dragonwriter 10y agoPancho Villa's Division of the North attacked Columbus, NM, provoking the Punitive Expedition.
- takk309 10y agoThe last time there was a flagged and uniformed foreign military on US soil was in 2005. The Mexican army assisted with aid work in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_response_to_Hurricane_...