Seventy-three years of war.

[WilliamPitt]

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]

1. sad fact.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. I could make a case for the beginnings of the war at Sarajevo in 1914.

A hundred years, not 73.

But who's quibbling?

[Scootaloo]

4. Longer than that, even, counting our occupations and interventions in Latin America

[monmouth4]

3. Yep, I'll be 75 in July of next year and war has always been....n/t

[Cooley Hurd]

5. Ike warned us, and he was there at the beginning...

Start at 8:00...

[Spider Jerusalem]

6. And for most of the 165 years before then.

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]

7. America indulges in a lot of false advertising and self deception.

"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]

8. 7+ decades that should live in INFAMY

How many have paid the price, at home and abroad?

[olddots]

9. there is an old song

Ain't gonna study war no more .

We shouldn't study war because we seem to never learn anything from it .

[Howler]

10. its the way of

Empire!

[Nye Bevan]

11. OK I'll bite.

I guess this is not a complete list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States

so what is missing?