No, Kondor3, you don't get to deflect.
You were hoisted on your petard.
GOP presidents have indeed started wars. The greatest one, the Civil War, killed more Americans than all the other wars and was guided by Lincoln.
All our recent wars were started by the GOP. And note the Republicans and Democrats were happily joined in together.
Conclusion: the OP is off balance. Second Conclusion: Kondor3 is off balance as well.
Go back to sleep, Jake.
The challenge in the original post in that sequence was the pretense that Democrats were amateurs compared to Republicans, when it came to warfare.
I countered with WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam, and the Democratic Presidents who initiated or escalated and expanded them.
I never held that Republicans did not start their share of wars.
I never held that Republicans did not start all of our most recent wars.
Such things are conceded and understood in advance - nolo contendere.
I merely countered that Democrats have been responsible for or presided over most of the vast and most costly warfare of the 20th century.
Given that these are facts...consequently, no deflection was necessary, nor was any attempted.
As if oftentimes the case, you came in late on a conversation, misunderstood, and decided to make a pain in the ass out of yourself, over nothing at all.
Which is about as 'off-balance' as one can get, in these environs.
Next contestant, please.