re: The USA is the greatest nation on the fricking planet...

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The rest of the world is just begging to snuff out millions the second we frick off.

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Complete nonsense. The Royal Navy has 30 combatant ships including submarines. They are definitely bent on world conquest.

The Viet Nam war was ginned up on a totally false premise and Johnson knew it.


"In reply to a formal question submitted by President Lyndon B. Johnson–“Would the rest of Southeast Asia necessarily fall if Laos and South Vietnam came under North Vietnamese control?”–the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) submits a memo that effectively challenges the “domino theory” backbone of the Johnson administration policies. This theory contended that if South Vietnam fell to the communists, the rest of Southeast Asia would also fall “like dominoes,” and the theory had been used to justify much of the Vietnam War effort.

The CIA concluded that Cambodia was probably the only nation in the area that would immediately fall. “Furthermore,” the report said, “a continuation of the spread of communism in the area would not be inexorable, and any spread which did occur would take time–time in which the total situation might change in any number of ways unfavorable to the communist cause.” The CIA report concluded that if South Vietnam and Laos also fell, it “would be profoundly damaging to the U.S. position in the Far East,” but Pacific bases and allies such as the Philippines and Japan would still wield enough power to deter China and North Vietnam from any further aggression or expansion. President Johnson appears to have ignored the CIA analysis–he eventually committed over 500,000 American troops to the war in an effort to block the spread of communism to South Vietnam."

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Just a movie

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Calling us one of the worst nations in the world just because we are the most capable is complete bullshite though.

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More people have been killed at our hands in the last 50 years than by any other nation by far, or any combination of nations.

The general in charge in Afghanistan recently said he needs a larger force to "break the stalemate" in Afghanistan. When we couldn't do that with 5 times the force.

Breaking the Stalemate in Afghanistan

By Robert Cassidy
April 14, 2017

General Nicholson has conceived a laudable idea for an operational method to help break the stalemate by about 2020. His idea is to invest in those forces that have demonstrated the best capacity to outfight the Taliban in most engagements: the Afghan Special Security Forces (ASSF) and the Afghan Air Force (AAF). In his recent SASC testimony, he explained his operational idea to grow the ASSF and AAF to build an overmatch in offensive capacity vis-à-vis the Taliban, to ultimately achieve tactical and operational momentum. The idea is to create an offensive punch that will outmatch the Taliban and break the stalemate. An offensive overmatch in the best Afghan security forces will create a tactical and operational capacity to hit the Taliban hard, disrupting, capturing, and displacing their leaders and infrastructure. This concept will create operational momentum by taking away Taliban capacity and by increasing the Afghan government’s control over more key population areas. But tactical gains and operational momentum alone will not break the stalemate. Offensive punch and tactical overmatch will set the enemy back, but without strategic change in reducing the enemy’s external sanctuary, these gains will be impermanent. There were marked tactical gains and discernible operational momentum during the uplift of forces period in 2010-2011, but they did not break the strategic stalemate because Pakistan continued to provide sanctuary and support."

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That is war just for the sake of war.

Notice the saying by Sun Tzu I highlighted in red.

Smart guy.

Here is another thing that we did just to keep war going when it was starting to die down. A fake sarin attack.

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ETA: regarding the Cold War stuff, yes it was manipulative and immoral.

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You are wrong again. Are you used to that yet?

Forestalling the Soviet Union was a necessary thing. Their records show that as late as 1986 they were looking to break into western Europe.

Funny how as soon as the Soviet Union collapsed Islamic terror took its place. Hell, it's better. A war on "terror" never has to end.

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Vietnam?
Who were the oppressors?

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The Communists.

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Iran in 1953?
Who were we to boot out the Shah?

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The Shah was not the one involved. The Shah..opposed by fricknuts Carter..was the best hope for evolving Iran out of the 7th century.
Mossedegh was a backstabbing tyrant. helping to get rid of him was the right thing to do.

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IMO unless you are talking about a Denmark or a New Zealand where you have a homogenous population the size of Houston it doesn't get much easier than here. Whether you are talking about taxation, equality legislation, national security, working conditions, or job opportunity

Those are the tangible things. If you are talking about perception such as discrimination (personally not legally) or "is my president an a-hole," well that's a lot simpler when your country is over 90% homogenous or your media is limited in its ability to criticize.
People say the US is too white at < 70%, and there is nothing on the books that prevents any demographic from any achievement, in fact lower representations in fields are given advantages.

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That^

You're brainwashed.

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So if we snuff out fewer lives than we created, we are cool?

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That makes zero sense.

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If you had any real effect on public opinion, and found yourself on the wrong side of the Clintons, you'd be found dead in your bathroom or in a small plane crash right away.

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