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America Loves Peace? Odd, Since We're Always at War

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We've been in conflict for about half the period between World War II and the present, but consider ourselves a "peace-loving" nation.

Americans love to think that we're a peaceful people, and that we fight wars only when we must

Unfortunately, you can count in nanoseconds how long those assertions hold up when exposed to such insidious commie dirty tricks as the application of logic or the examination of empirical history

Since World War II, the United States has messed around, in ways big and small, in Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Lebanon, Grenada, Iraq, Panama, Colombia, Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Haiti, Afghanistan again, and Iraq again

No country in the world can begin to match this record in the last half-century

covert operations

Iran, Guatemala, Chile

Latin American countries

gunboat diplomacy

Israeli occupation of Palestine

apartheid South Africa