Reply #48: Did you sleep through history class, arendt? [View All]

[PaganPreacher]

We don't strike first...We don't provoke people...we didn't use to pre-empt.

Bullshit. We have over 200 years of history that says "bullshit", too.

Here is a small list of "first strikes", provocations, and pre-emptive strikes by the US military:
**The Northwest Indian War (1785-1795)
**The Quasi War- which included plans to invade France(1798-1801)
**The First Barbary War ("...to the shores of Tripoli"), which included the blockade of Tripoli Harbor and the burning of civilian ships in the harbor- neither of which was truly necessary to stop Muslim piracy in the Mediterranean (1801-1805)
**The War of 1812- the US declared war on Great Britain and invaded Canada (1812-1815)
**The First Seminole War-Jackson invaded west Florida (1817-1818)
**The Indian Wars (1865-1890)
**The Phillipine-American War (1899-1902)
**The "Banana Wars" in Cuba, Mexico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua between 1898-1935. The US military was used to protect commercial interests in Central America.
**The Polar Bear Expedition- during the Bolshevik Revolution at the end of World War I, US troops invaded Russia (1918)

It is the REAL history of the United States that our military has been deployed for first strikes whenever the President and/or the Congress decided it was in the national interest to do so.

The Pagan Preacher
I don't turn the other cheek.