How do you expect us to know. Even Leon Panetta can not count that high as he showed when he was stumped by that question.
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:01 AM, Gar Lipow <[email protected]> wrote: > How many shooting wars is the U.S. involved in at the moment? > By my count four "wholesale" wars where we directly kill large numbers of > people - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. > > How many are directly involved in at a retail level - not killing that many > directly but killing a few directly? Honduras, Mexico, and so on? > > How many proxy- where most of the killing is done on our behalf by others? > That overlaps the retail, Honduras, Mexico, but also includes Columbia, many > other nations in Latin America, ? I guess proxy wars also include nations > where we did not originate the war but are supporting one side a large scale > such as Israel in Palestine, Bahrain and the Philippines. (Hmm give U.S. > history in the Philippines that might count as a proxy war.) > > So I wonder is there anyplace where someone has put together a list of how > many wars the U.S. is involved in at the moment? Not a historical list - > just a list of where we are shooting people today, and w here we are > supporting others in shooting people today. > -- > Facebook: Gar Lipow Twitter: GarLipow > Solving the Climate Crisis web page: SolvingTheClimateCrisis.com > Grist Blog: http://grist.org/author/gar-lipow/ > Online technical reference: http://www.nohairshirts.com > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
