..and in charge. Really, Americans are too stupid to run a war effectively and have lost the majority of armed conflicts they involved themselves in during the last 50 years (unlike we Brits and Brit-lovers):
1. Somalia: - failure
2. Vietnam - failure
3. Korea - stalemate
4. Iraq + Afghanistan - the military-industrial complex drained the economy in a perpetual to the point where it indirectly caused an economic collapse.
5. Iran - Operation Eagle Claw - owned by ragheads - massive failure that resulted in 8 American deaths.
America reminds me of the fat classroom bully who constantly would talk shit, but when he actually got off his obese ass to do something, he tripped on his shoelaces and knocked his own dumb head out. 'Murica!
This is fucking stupid. There's a difference between all out war and what we've been doing. If we were to use all the power we have, we could turn any one of those countries to glass. But that's not the goal.
Modern American warfare is more responsible than most military engagements have been in the past - meaning we try to destroy a targeted enemy with minimal civilian damage.
If it was acceptable for us to simply firebomb the crap out of the cities - reduce them to rubble - we could win quite easily. We could kill almost every single person in them without huge losses.
The only way we "lose" is when we're fighting guerilla armies and attempting to limit civilian casualties/leave the country something left to build from when the war is over. If we were in defensive wars it would be acceptable to "do like Britain" did in WW2, we'd probably barely see a casualty.
I'll name five:
China
Britain
India
France
Russia
(include any country with a decent infrastructure, the ability to mobilize millions of armed and trained soldiers, as well as a healthy stock of long range nuclear missiles).
There is not a single country on that list that could beat us militarily, and only one that could sink us economically.
Most (Britain, India, France) use largely
our military technology - which means they are unable to repair the machines or perform maintenence on them without US supplied parts.
Beyond that we typically do not sell "bleeding edge" tech to damn near anyone. We only sell things we can beat.
The ones who aren't using US suppleid tech(Russia/China) are technologically quite far behind outside of a few very specific technologies. China is still working on it's first air craft carrier.
It would simply be too economically draining and socially damaging to sustain a war with them. Beat your drums all you want, but the simple fact is that we live in a GLOBAL community and are hopelessly intertwined.
Economically? Only China would matter, arguably Russia(because Gas). Places like Britain and France are a blip on the radar.
Anyone who knows me knows I'm not exactly the "gung-ho USA military" type...but your arguments suck.
