Washingtons Blog - Since the United States was founded in 1776, she has been at war during 214 out of her 235 calendar years of existence. In other words, there were only 21 calendar years in which the U.S. did not wage any wars.
To put this in perspective:
* Pick any year since 1776 and there is about a 91% chance that America was involved in some war during that calendar year.
* No U.S. president truly qualifies as a peacetime president. Instead, all U.S. presidents can technically be considered “war presidents.”
* The U.S. has never gone a decade without war.
* The only time the U.S. went five years without war (1935-40) was during the isolationist period of the Great Depression.
Year by year data
5 comments:
Until 9/11, we never lost a war we did not start. Of course after 9/11 we invaded the wrong country, which makes a loss IMO, especially since we were aiding the enemy.
I wonder on the numbers for other nations.
"we never lost a war we did not start"
Some caveat, that. And by what means of convoluted thought does one dismiss US culpability in any of our historic military adventures?
Certainly 9/11 had it's antecedents with Carter's succumbing to Zbigniew Brzezinski's urgings coax and manipulate the Soviets with clandestine operations in Afghanistan. Ziggy even more or less copped to it-- ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/542984/posts )
"What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?"
How's that for an expression of convoluted logic, hubris, and god knows what else?
We own 9/11, it may have been twenty years in gestation, but it is ours nonetheless.
Our country is enmeshed with the Warrior archetype. Just look at out national anthem, "bombs bursting in air", it glorifies war. Honestly, if we want to change our way of bring, let's start by replacing our national anthem with America the Beautiful.
9/11 was an act of war by Saudi Arabia in order to persuade the US to finish Saddam. It was not retaliation for anything.
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