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Date: 4 Jun 2025 04:48:57 GMT
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On Tue, 03 Jun 2025 18:32:54 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> I once read a novel where one of the characters described the United
> States as "a country that's never missed a war."

Sadly.  In reality the US has only been in 5 wars because Congress, which 
has the power to declare war, abdicates its responsibility.

Even sadder, many times the politician who was elected on the promise to 
keep the US out of a war was the one that led the country into yet another 
war even if it required a lot of creative writing and yellow journalism to 
make it happen. 

Despite loving war the US hasn't exactly won a war in my lifetime except 
for little operations like Grenada and that wasn't the smoothest 
operation. I'm sure Thatcher and Reagan had a long, heated discussion 
about invading a Commonwealth country without even a courtesy call.

War is good for business. Like the Spanish Civil War all those little 
proxy wars also give the industrial-military complex the chance to see if 
their latest toys actually work.