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minus-squareAeronMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up67·4 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-up44·4 days agoTo be fair, America initially lost the war on terror, then switched sides, so they’re technically winning.
minus-squarevillage604@adultswim.fanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·4 days agoWe were doing terrorism long before 9/11
minus-squarevillage604@adultswim.fanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·4 days agoWe basically have been since the puritans landed on Plymouth Rock.
minus-squaremobyduck648@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days 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-squareWhoIzDisIz@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up17·4 days agoBecause their leaders are idiots who think attacking the symptom will eliminate the cause.
minus-squareChilledPeppers@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·4 days agoAnd Vietnam. And Iraq. And Afghanistan. And koreas. The US is just terrible at war tbh.
minus-squareCarbonIceDragon@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up10·4 days 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.
Because their leaders are idiots who think attacking the symptom will eliminate the cause.
And Vietnam. And Iraq. And Afghanistan. And koreas. The US is just terrible at war tbh.
Abstract concepts dont tend to have the capacity for surrender, after all.
Losing the war in Iran.