CHUCKMAN: America Has Just Lost Two More Wars

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America Has Just Lost Two More Wars

September 22 2006
Counterbias.com
by John Chuckman


For a country which takes excessive pride in flags, uniforms, and marching bands and spends more than the rest of the planet combined on its military, the record of America's forces since World War II is depressing. In dozens of quickie invasions against weak opponents, Americans indeed have prevailed, but when faced with tough and determined enemies, they have remarkably often been defeated or stalemated.

The failure of America's military could be explained by the notion that failure is only what happens when you seek the wrong success. A poorly-governed people, as Americans certainly are, keeps being sent to wars in which they have no vital interest or commitment. Whatever the reason, the record is unmistakable.

It includes Korea after MacArthur's insane march to the Chinese border.

It includes Vietnam, where, despite the slaughter of millions, the US left in shame, abandoning desperate associates clinging to helicopter undercarriages.

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[MadMaddie]

1. Great Piece!!

[nealmhughes]

2. Reading of MacArthur and the Chinese counter invasion:

shades of misinterpretation of intelligence or else blatantly ignoring it once again as the news in today's NYT proves...

"But I didn't know there were "really" half a million Chinese armed men right on the border, not "really"...that they would actually cross the border! With guns! My Uncle Morris died there.

[Briar]

3. More

"When are we going to learn how stupidly unproductive war is? And when is the US going to learn how bad it is at war despite its monstrous expenditures preparing for it?"

Let's make that "force" generally, not just war, and stop glorifying its use in all areas of life.

[indepat]

4. We must always have wars against the bogey men of the RW choosing: RW

because they like it, Dems for being scared they will shit their pants if labeled soft on communism, terrorism, defense, crime, drugs,.... The RW has set the entire national agenda since WWII and our willingness to kill/maim millions of people on their own soil for having an ideology not far enough to the right will be this Republic's post WWII legacy in my sad opinion. Read Professor John Quigley's The Ruses for War, Prometheus, 1992.

[applegrove]

5. Halliburton won!

[eridani]

6. That's because of being imperialist outside invaders

Invaders have the option of going home. People in the invaded country ARE home, and don't have that option.