SPINOZA: Assuming that every American war/military action should be undertaken ONLY for the immediate and/or future benefit/protection of any majority of all American citizens......
Would you mind describing with as much detail possible, how ANY of the above listed American OFFENSIVE military operations WERE NECESSARY for any DEFENSE OF AMERICA?
Wars aren’t always fought just to be warring for x reason or y reason. Sometimes it's not always a battle for land, resources, etc. Sometimes a countires security is more than just itself.
Korea and Vietnam were fought because two opposing ideologies were jockeying for position over one another. Grenada (location), Panama (canal), and Kuwait (oil) were mostly fought for US self-interest and economic prowess and power. Somalia was fought to curb the humanitarian crisis that the warlords were creating – take out the warlords, end the crisis. Bosnia/Herzegovina was also done because of humanitarian crisis (genocide, among other things) and as a PR move to improve US relations to that part of Europe.
The invasion of Afghanistan was a reactionary attack and war to what came to state-sanctioned terrorist attacks.
Like I put on another post, I don’t know why we went in nor do I serve up a reason like oil or anything. I think it was a another self-interest move similar to Panama and Kuwait.
Anything else you want to know about those wars, just look it up. They all have their own justifications and reasonings specific to them.
SPINOZA: Assuming that ALL of the above American war/military actions have COST significant treasury/taxpayer dollars...... Can you imagine any avenue along which these same REAL dollars could have been BETTER "paraded" for ANY BEST/HONEST INTEREST OF AMERICA?
Yeah, there are some things I think could be funded more. Health Care, education, law enforcement, border security, national debt, et al.
SPINOZA: Assuming that your BEST OFFENSE rationale is worthy of any serious consideration......
Would you mind describing EVEN ONE HISTORICAL AMERICAN INSTANCE, when any alleged BEST OFFENSE American war has been either COST or BLOOD effective toward ANY seemingly righteous DEFENSIVE goal/agenda?
I say to one extent or another, everything we’ve been involved in, short of Iraq now, has been in one way or another to better America and protect it in some way. There have been positives and negatives, and I will take the negatives right along with the positives because then you know your doing something right, imo.