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For all the claim of incompetents, I must say I am enjoying this pause where the US has not started new wars. Looking at the list at wikipedia (https://en.wikip

by belorn 8y ago

For all the claim of incompetents, I must say I am enjoying this pause where the US has not started new wars. Looking at the list at wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States#21st-century_wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...), a new war was started basically every second year. No new war since 2015. Maybe I just have a very low bar for competence.

rtkwe 8y ago
We're instead stuck in interminable wars basically fighting the idea of extreme fundamentalist Islam.
- belorn 8y ago
  Yes, it seems that rather than starting wars and sending military out to fight, the discussing has landed on more abstract aspects. If this period becomes the longest time between new wars since 1978 then I think that is an improvement. 40 years with constant news wars every second or third year is kind of crazy. It only takes that the US last until 2020 without starting a new war for it to reach that "record", and given current political internal fighting between the left and the right it seems this will actually happen. It would be amazing if as a result the military budget would start to shrink as current ongoing wars ends.
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  - rtkwe 8y ago
    I think longest time without a new war is a pretty garbage metric considering we're just constantly in the same fight for the last 10+ years.
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    - belorn 8y ago
      Lumping together Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Kenya, Indian Ocean, Libya, Uganda, Syria, and Yemen as the same fight is a rather garbage argument considering that the US has different reason in each case to go to war and with different goals.
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