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minus-squareAeronMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up66·2 days agoAmerica: big on winning wars. …Lost the war on terror to terror. …Lost the war on drugs to drugs.
minus-squareLoaf@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·1 day agoTo be fair, America initially lost the war on terror, then switched sides, so they’re technically winning.
minus-squarevillage604@adultswim.fanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·1 day agoWe were doing terrorism long before 9/11
minus-squarevillage604@adultswim.fanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 day agoWe basically have been since the puritans landed on Plymouth Rock.
minus-squaremobyduck648@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day 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-up12·1 day agoAnd Vietnam. And Iraq. And Afghanistan. And koreas. The US is just terrible at war tbh.
minus-squareWhoIzDisIz@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up17·2 days agoBecause their leaders are idiots who think attacking the symptom will eliminate the cause.
minus-squareCarbonIceDragon@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 day agoAbstract 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.