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minus-squareAeronMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up66·2 天前America: big on winning wars. …Lost the war on terror to terror. …Lost the war on drugs to drugs.
minus-squareLoaf@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43·2 天前To be fair, America initially lost the war on terror, then switched sides, so they’re technically winning.
minus-squarevillage604@adultswim.fanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·2 天前We were doing terrorism long before 9/11
minus-squarevillage604@adultswim.fanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·2 天前We basically have been since the puritans landed on Plymouth Rock.
minus-squaremobyduck648@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 天前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.
minus-squareChilledPeppers@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·2 天前And Vietnam. And Iraq. And Afghanistan. And koreas. The US is just terrible at war tbh.
minus-squareWhoIzDisIz@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up17·2 天前Because their leaders are idiots who think attacking the symptom will eliminate the cause.
minus-squareCarbonIceDragon@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 天前Abstract concepts dont tend to have the capacity for surrender, after all.
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.