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No, Americans love a good war. If they want one and high approval ratings for their elected officials, it just needs a catalyst of some sort. Spanish American W

No, Americans love a good war. If they want one and high approval ratings for their elected officials, it just needs a catalyst of some sort. Spanish American War (USS Maine), WW2 (Pearl Harbor), Vietnam War (Gulf of Tonkin), Afghanistan War (9/11), Iraq War (WMDs). Catalyst can be real or imagined. It seems there is a lot of well-deserved mistrust in China by the West, so a war with China wouldn't be surprising even if only by proxy (Cold War).

jessaustin 5y ago
Afghanistan War (WMDs) I thought WMDs were the lie that justified invading Iraq? The Afghanistan lie was that ObL was hiding in a cave there rather than openly living down the street from the Pakistan Military Academy. I'll admit that as the stories pile up it gets hard to keep them straight. It seems possible that the war pigs have gone a bit overboard with the stories in the last several decades. They've turned the knob so far that it may have broken off. After the "disastrous" aspects of the recent withdrawal have been hyped so much in the war media, I've heard normal red-blooded high-school-educated Ozark hillbilly Americans laughing out loud at e.g. CNN's instant backflip on the performance of Biden as president. It has been made exceedingly clear which interests really decide what's news.
whoaisme 5y ago
WMDs have nothing to do with Afghanistan or the justification for invading Afghanistan. It's wild you can talk so confidently while being less knowledgeable than literal children. You criticize Americans but the way you bullshit you seem indistinguishable from the dumbest lot of them.
gataca 5y ago
> Afghanistan War (WMDs) 9/11 was catalyst for this, nothing to do with WMDs
- f38zf5vdt 5y ago
  Oh, yeah lol. That was Iraq, so many I'm misremembering. I'll edit in both. As far as "war weary", I don't remember the Cold War ending when the Vietnam War ended. It was just a foreign intervention the Americans lost, like the Soviets lost Afghanistan.
breckenedge 5y ago
Bogus WMDs was the excuse for the second war in Iraq, not Afghanistan. We invaded Afghanistan because they wouldn’t hand over Bin Laden. Historically, American public sentiment has swung between periods of imperialism and isolationism. Based on the last few years, I think we’re swinging back towards isolationism. But yea, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a near-future President looking for an easy military victory (e.g. Panama).

jessaustin 5y ago

Afghanistan War (WMDs) I thought WMDs were the lie that justified invading Iraq? The Afghanistan lie was that ObL was hiding in a cave there rather than openly living down the street from the Pakistan Military Academy. I'll admit that as the stories pile up it gets hard to keep them straight. It seems possible that the war pigs have gone a bit overboard with the stories in the last several decades. They've turned the knob so far that it may have broken off. After the "disastrous" aspects of the recent withdrawal have been hyped so much in the war media, I've heard normal red-blooded high-school-educated Ozark hillbilly Americans laughing out loud at e.g. CNN's instant backflip on the performance of Biden as president. It has been made exceedingly clear which interests really decide what's news.

whoaisme 5y ago

WMDs have nothing to do with Afghanistan or the justification for invading Afghanistan. It's wild you can talk so confidently while being less knowledgeable than literal children. You criticize Americans but the way you bullshit you seem indistinguishable from the dumbest lot of them.

gataca 5y ago

> Afghanistan War (WMDs) 9/11 was catalyst for this, nothing to do with WMDs

f38zf5vdt 5y ago
Oh, yeah lol. That was Iraq, so many I'm misremembering. I'll edit in both. As far as "war weary", I don't remember the Cold War ending when the Vietnam War ended. It was just a foreign intervention the Americans lost, like the Soviets lost Afghanistan.

breckenedge 5y ago

Bogus WMDs was the excuse for the second war in Iraq, not Afghanistan. We invaded Afghanistan because they wouldn’t hand over Bin Laden. Historically, American public sentiment has swung between periods of imperialism and isolationism. Based on the last few years, I think we’re swinging back towards isolationism. But yea, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a near-future President looking for an easy military victory (e.g. Panama).