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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSeventy-three years of war.
Seventy-three years ago today, Japanese forces bombed the American fleet at Pearl Harbor.
We have been at war for every single one of the seventy-three years since.
...and someone's getting paid for it. It ain't you, or me, but that's fact.
marym625
(17,997 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)A hundred years, not 73.
But who's quibbling?
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)monmouth4
(9,709 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Start at 8:00...
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)The Barbary corsairs, the War of 1812, the Indian wars, Mexican War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, Boxer Rebellion, the Punitive Expedition to Mexico, the occupation of Haiti, the occupation of the Dominican Republic, the First World War, the Allied expeditionary force supporting the White Russians in 1918-19...there has never been an extended period in the history of the United States when there was "peace".
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)"A nation of peace"
"Equal opportunity"
"We don't torture"
"All men are equal under the law"
"We promote democracy"
"Freedom of speech"
"Freedom of the press"
"Freedom to peaceably assemble"
"The right to privacy"
And, many, many, more instances of the same.
Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)How many have paid the price, at home and abroad?
olddots
(10,237 posts)Ain't gonna study war no more .
We shouldn't study war because we seem to never learn anything from it .
Howler
(4,225 posts)Empire!
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)I guess this is not a complete list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States
so what is missing?