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On 3/18/2025 5:23 AM, John B. wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 05:44:41 -0400, zen cycle
> <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/17/2025 9:00 PM, John B. wrote:
>>> On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:22:38 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:10:39 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 22:40:26 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Education can also be a weapon.  Education can be used for the general
>>>>>> good and for personal benefit.  However, it can also be used for evil
>>>>>> and personal detriment.  For example, I consider working on military
>>>>>> devices and weapons of mass destruction to be in the latter category.
>>>>>
>>>>> Why ever did you immigrate to the U.S.  At war with someone.some where
>>>>> for 90% or more of their history. Even Israel has to stretch to keep
>>>>> up with them :-)
>>>>
>>>> Immigration to US wasn't my decision.  I was 5 or 6 years old when my
>>>> parents dragged me kicking and screaming to the land where the streets
>>>> are paved with gold.  Actually, after WWII and the concentration
>>>> camps, the US looked much better than all the other countries that had
>>>> been trashed by WWII.  Almost every displaced Jew wanted to relocate
>>>> to Israel after WWII.  Most of my relatives went to Israel.  A few
>>>> idiots went back to Poland or worse.  The problem was that the British
>>>> "owned" Israel and didn't like the idea of a mass Jewish exodus to the
>>>> promised land.  They didn't allow immigration to Israel until 1948,
>>>> the year I was born:
>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine>
>>>>
>>>> What's different about US wars is that most of them involved fighting
>>>> someone else's war or revolution as a result of entangled alliances.
>>>> Other countries had the same problem, but were generally smart enough
>>>> to default on their promises when the results of a war or revolution
>>>> were not guaranteed.
>>>>
>>>>>> Drivel:  I have a headache and need to stop writing.
>>>
>>> Read some history. The bulk of U.S. "wars" were not defense from
>>> attack, but rather the opposite.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure that's what Jeff wrote.
>> "most of them involved fighting someone else's war or revolution as a
>> result of entangled alliances"
> 
> 
> As I said, "Read some history"
> 
> April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848) was an invasion of Mexico by the
> United States Army.
> 
> Second Anglo-Chinese War or Arrow War,[3] was fought between the
> United Kingdom and France against the Qing dynasty of China between
> 1856 and 1860. It was the second major conflict in the Opium Wars,
> which were fought over the right to import opium to China,
> 
> The United States expedition to Korea, known in Korea as the
> Shinmiyangyo (Korean: ????; Hanja: ????; lit. Western Disturbance in
> the Shinmi Year) or simply the Korean Expedition, was an American
> military action in Korea that took place predominantly on and around
> Ganghwa Island in 1871.
> 
> The Spanish–American War[b] (April 21 – December 10, 1898) was fought
> between Spain and the United States in 1898.
> 
> The Philippine–American War,[13] known alternatively as the Philippine
> Insurrection, Filipino–American War,[b] or Tagalog
> Insurgency,[14][15][16] emerged following the conclusion of the
> Spanish–American War in December 1898
> 
> The Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Uprising, was an
> anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, and anti-Christian uprising in North
> China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty, by
> the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, known as the "Boxers"
> 
> The United States occupation of Haiti began on July 28, 1915, when 330
> US Marines landed at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the National City
> Bank of New York convinced the President of the United States, Woodrow
> Wilson, to take control of Haiti's political and financial interests.
> 
> And the list goes on and on and on.

Serendipitously, MacArthur used the charts, maps and field 
reports from that 1871 expedition for his brilliant Inchon 
landing.  Seemingly pointless action still contributes to 
'institutional memory' which is a big difference between US 
military and CCP (we all hope that point is not tested).

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Andrew Muzi
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