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minus-squareAeronMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up68·1 month agoAmerica: big on winning wars. …Lost the war on terror to terror. …Lost the war on drugs to drugs.
minus-squareLoaf@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44·1 month agoTo be fair, America initially lost the war on terror, then switched sides, so they’re technically winning.
minus-squarevillage604@adultswim.fanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·1 month agoWe were doing terrorism long before 9/11
minus-squarevillage604@adultswim.fanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 month agoWe basically have been since the puritans landed on Plymouth Rock.
minus-squaremobyduck648@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month 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-up17·1 month agoBecause their leaders are idiots who think attacking the symptom will eliminate the cause.
minus-squareChilledPeppers@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·1 month agoAnd Vietnam. And Iraq. And Afghanistan. And koreas. The US is just terrible at war tbh.
minus-squareCarbonIceDragon@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 month 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.