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Adding to this, young Americans have never seen anything gained from war. The war in Afghanistan lasted 2 decades and cost trillions of dollars, yet we have nex
by _bohm 4y ago
Adding to this, young Americans have never seen anything gained from war. The war in Afghanistan lasted 2 decades and cost trillions of dollars, yet we have next to nothing to show for it.
- 8note 4y agoWhen is the last time America has seen benefit from going to war? The 50s with a stalemate in Korea?
- _bohm 4y agoArguably the first Gulf War. The US successfully protected it's economic interest and expanded its military establishment in the region.
- reducesuffering 4y agoAnd liberated the Kuwaiti people from scud missiles, invasion, and occupation from a brutal Saddam regime? That's a pretty important benefit to miss, but maybe you're just limiting it to benefits for a US citizen. (of which selfless ones would consider it a benefit)
- _bohm 4y agoThat is indeed the perspective I was looking at if from. But you are right.
- pessimizer 4y agoPeople who don't go to war always gained from war. Lots of jobs. The post-WWII afterglow is when we defined our middle-class mythologies. The good old days. The US had 419K deaths from WWII. That's like half as much as covid thus far. Americans like to go to war because they sacrifice nothing. It's a game.
- onos 4y agoOne problem with all these reviews is that we can’t see the counter factual. That said I agree Iraq war was likely a very bad thing for our country and certainly is responsible for much of our internal strife right now.
- 10xrubberduck 4y agoAdd Libyan intervention (2011) as well - that put the country into 9 years of civil war (is it still peaceful there? IDK). Though this one is combined mess of NATO.
- BeFlatXIII 4y agoIt made stock prices go up so a bunch of retirees could live comfortably and also made several presidents look presidential while they heartfelt condolences over flag-draped caskets.