The US has spent nearly $6,000,000,000,000 on wars that have killed over 500,000 people.

[Cosmos]

That’s like $12,000,000 per kill.

Surely, we can do better than that.

It'll be hard. We're running out of targets. Wouldn't look good to start bombing Germany and France where all the terrorists are now.

 

[the other mike]

$6 trillion up in smoke, but we can't afford fast trains or tuition-free college and decent health care. Hell we can't even maintain our bridges and roads.

 

[Slyhunter]

Nuke Mecca.

 

[Mr Natural]

Nuke Mecca.

That should have been done September 12, 2001.

 

[harmonica]

..the US helps the world the MOST--including
hundreds or THOUSANDS of immigrants/visas/etc per year
providing carriers/etc for natural disaster help
remittance
etc etc etc

 

[harmonica]

Too much shit happens without my approval.
Americans by and large have no clue what our CIA black ops are up to at any given time, until a few of us see the redacted files 25 years later, if ever. Panama, Chile, Afghanistan in the 70's...the list goes on for fucking ever.

..I agree, we put our noses in too many stupid problems
..but this doesn't mean the US is an evil country

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

you wouldn't here a peep out of em for 100 years after just two or three bombs


Start here when its JAMMED pack

finished

no treasure lost
no American military blood spilled

 

[the other mike]

This was framed behind Dick Cheney's war room desk.

 

[Slyhunter]

you wouldn't here a peep out of em for 100 years after just two or three bombs


Start here when its JAMMED pack
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finished

no treasure lost
no American military blood spilled

And it is a better value of death for the dollar than we normally get.

 

[the other mike]

And it is a better value of death for the dollar than we normally get.

Like trying to kill a wasp nest with a 22. Real smart.
Terrorism Before and During the War on Terror: A Look at the Numbers

 

[the other mike]

This chart displays the number of terrorist attacks worldwide in the Global Terrorism Database each year from 1989 to 2014. The graphic indicates that global terrorist attacks rose dramatically after 2004: There were just over 1,000 in 2004, but almost 17,000 in 2014. The numbers from 2015 and 2016 (not shown) have remained remarkably high, but below the 2014 peak.

 

[P@triot]

Americans by and large have no clue what our CIA black ops are up to at any given time, until a few of us see the redacted files 25 years later, if ever.

Um...yeah. That’s kind of the point. Their operations wouldn’t be too effective if they publicly announced them in advance.

 

[P@triot]

This chart displays the number of terrorist attacks worldwide in the Global Terrorism Database each year from 1989 to 2014.

1. What’s with the propaganda? You start a thread about the United States and then attempt to back up your position with statistics from global metrics. How many successful terrorist attacks on U.S. soil? If you’re going to make statements about the U.S., your statistics need to be about the U.S.

2. Terrorism was always going to go up, genius. Just as traditional military combat has gone down. It’s the simple reality of a shift in tactics. How many people can purchase a tank and a nuclear warhead? Almost 0. But anybody can engage in terrorism.

3. Correlation does not equal causation. There isn’t an ounce of data that even hints at U.S. policy being the cause of the increase in terrorism (see #2 above).

 

[P@triot]

Too much shit happens without my approval.

But it did happen with my approval. So we’re all good here.

 

[impuretrash]

Too much shit happens without my approval.

But it did happen with my approval. So we’re all good here.

So you're going on record that you were and still are in favor of the invasion of Iraq?

 

[the other mike]

But it did happen with my approval. So we’re all good here.

So you're going on record that you were and still are in favor of the invasion of Iraq?

Now we know why he has to misspell Patriot-- he will never be one.

 

[P@triot]

So you're going on record that you were and still are in favor of the invasion of Iraq?

Unquestionably one of the best thing the United States has ever done. Saddam Hussein was a maniac and should have been removed decades earlier.

 

[P@triot]

But it did happen with my approval. So we’re all good here.

So you're going on record that you were and still are in favor of the invasion of Iraq?

Now we know why he has to misspell Patriot-- he will never be one.

Yeah...nothing says “patriot” like being a whiny coward.

 

[the other mike]

But it did happen with my approval. So we’re all good here.

So you're going on record that you were and still are in favor of the invasion of Iraq?

Now we know why he has to misspell Patriot-- he will never be one.

Yeah...nothing says “patriot” like being a whiny coward.

A whiny coward like your hero Dick Cheney.

 

[impuretrash]

So you're going on record that you were and still are in favor of the invasion of Iraq?

Unquestionably one of the best thing the United States has ever done. Saddam Hussein was a maniac and should have been removed decades earlier.

I don't care if he tortured puppies, removing him was one of the biggest mistakes this country ever made. Name 1 benefit to the American people that resulted from that war.