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Old 09-11-2015, 03:14 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam View Post
Korea = failure
Vietnam = failure
Iraq = failure
Afghanistan = outcome unknown but it looks like a future failure

Puffing words and smoke will not accomplish jack-shit.

Like you say 3,000 years of conflict ... ( I think 2,700 years is closer but that is splitting hairs).
N. America = Huge success.
B. Empire = Huge success.
And there has been lots of other huge successes with colonisation.

The problems today are the countries prepared to fund "freedom fighters" or "terrorists". The media and the liberal attitudes of the people back home.

Wars in the Middle East go back to the first Empires, so over 4,000 years ago. No one builds an Empire by being nice. So the only thing limiting big wars, are population numbers.
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