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John, I take up Grenada and Kuwait in my piece: I did not ignore them.
It seems to me you're complaining that I did not write a different
article. I addressed major, direct U.S. military interventions. I did
not take up coups nor surrogate wars nor how deadly U.S. weapons are,
nor how evil imperialism is. I did not mean for my headline to be read
as expansively as you do.
I am addressing a very specific but important point: why direct American
military interventions do not work. CIA-type stuff is different. The CIA
is --or at least was-- very conscious of the political dimension of even
its most militaristic operations. It could be very wrong and about the
politics, like in the Bay of Pigs, but it has not ignored them.
Joaquín
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To state that the U. S. has not won a military victory in 70 years - is just
false.
I am surprised that more people on this list have not mentioned that there was a
number of military efforts since 1945 that the U. S. government was successful
in.
These range from Grenada to Serbia and from Kuwait to the Congo. And often
through surrogate forces from Columbia to Sudan and Dominican Republic to
Israel.
And to not recognize this deadly military monster that is often involved in
coups and counter revolutions through many ways, is not recognizing reality.
The U.S. military is very armed and dangerous with AI robotics to chemical and
biological weapons to nuclear weapons to eliminate all life on this planet. Just
what are U. S. military forces doing in more than half the nations of this
planet?
They aided England in defeating the IRA in Ireland to removing Ghaddafi in
Libya.
And some have written on this list to encourage this military death machine to
further invade and occupy Syria. Seems so strange at times to understand how
people do not understand and recognize U. S. imperialism and its military's role
and terror on this list?
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Subject: [Marxism] The U.S. hasn't won a war in 70 years and Trump's buildup
can't fix that
Why do so many Americans think that we have inferior armed forces?
Because we can't seem to win a war, and we've been in plenty.
The United States has not won a decisive victory in any military
conflict it has been directly involved in since we nuked Japan in 1945.
http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-us-hasnt-won-war-in-70-years-and.html
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