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minus-squareAeronMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up63·20 hours agoAmerica: big on winning wars. …Lost the war on terror to terror. …Lost the war on drugs to drugs.
minus-squareLoaf@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·18 hours agoTo be fair, America initially lost the war on terror, then switched sides, so they’re technically winning.
minus-squarevillage604@adultswim.fanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·17 hours agoWe were doing terrorism long before 9/11
minus-squarevillage604@adultswim.fanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·15 hours agoWe basically have been since the puritans landed on Plymouth Rock.
minus-squaremobyduck648@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 hours agoI was going to write something sarcastic about transatlantic relations, but honestly we deserve some blame for the Puritans. The English Reformation and its consequences were fairly severe.
minus-squareChilledPeppers@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·16 hours agoAnd Vietnam. And Iraq. And Afghanistan. And koreas. The US is just terrible at war tbh.
minus-squareWhoIzDisIz@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up17·19 hours agoBecause their leaders are idiots who think attacking the symptom will eliminate the cause.
minus-squareCarbonIceDragon@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up10·18 hours agoAbstract concepts dont tend to have the capacity for surrender, after all.
minus-squareThe Real King Gordon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·18 hours agoLosing the war in Iran.
America: big on winning wars.
…Lost the war on terror to terror.
…Lost the war on drugs to drugs.
To be fair, America initially lost the war on terror, then switched sides, so they’re technically winning.
We were doing terrorism long before 9/11
True.
Are we the baddies?!
We basically have been since the puritans landed on Plymouth Rock.
I was going to write something sarcastic about transatlantic relations, but honestly we deserve some blame for the Puritans. The English Reformation and its consequences were fairly severe.
And Vietnam. And Iraq. And Afghanistan. And koreas. The US is just terrible at war tbh.
Because their leaders are idiots who think attacking the symptom will eliminate the cause.
Abstract concepts dont tend to have the capacity for surrender, after all.
Losing the war in Iran.