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Originally Posted by drex
Let's see, 2006-50-1956.
I can think of wars: Vietnam, Iraq, Iraq. (ok, so throw in Korea if you think that was a war, and technically, I'm not so sure Vietnam was our war, but ok).
What other wars are you talking about?
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Whether or not they declare it as an "official" war, I do not care. Sending troops overseas and attacking a country is considered "war".
So besides the ones you list, we have:
1956: Marines sent into Egypt to seize control of Suez Canal.
1958: 14,000 Marines occupy Lebanon and fight against rebels
1958: Marines sent to Panama to protect dictatorship from rebels
1959: Marines sent to Haiti to protect dictator from communist rebels - they stay in Haiti until 1963
1960: Covert special ops team invades Conga and overthrows and assassinates democractically elected Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba
1962: 5,000 Marines sent to Thailand to fight against communist rebels
1964: Marines again sent to Panama again to prop up dictatorship
1964: Marines sent to Brazil to give support for military coup and overthrow of democratically elected president
1965: 20,000 Marines sent to the Dominican Republic to help the dictatorship fight against rebels. Air Force also bombs. Marines stay there for more than a year.
1968-1970: US Air Force bombs Cambodia
1970: US troops participate along with Iranian marines as they invade Oman
1970: US troops invade Cambodia
1971: US Air Force carpet-bombs Laos
1975: US Air Force bombs Cambodia again
1976: US troops assist South-African backed rebels in Angola
1981: US troops invade El Salvador to help dictatorship fight against rebels
1983: Marines invade and occupy Greneda
1986: US Air Force bombs Libya
1989: Marines invade Panama and overthrow General Noriega's dictatorship and install new dictatorship
1992: US troops invade Somalia to help fight against one faction in a civil war
1998: US Air Force bombs Sudan and Afghanistan
2001: US troops invade Afghanistan after a month-long bombing campaign
2003: US troops invade Liberia and remove President Charles Taylor from power
2004: US troops invade Haiti and remove democratically elected president Aristide from power
And that is not even counting all the covert operations such as the support for Al-Queda in Afghanistan during the 1980s, or support for the Contras, or support for various military coups like the one in Chile in 1973.
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Originally Posted by drex
LIAR LIAR LIAR.
Colombia0.617847 per 1,000 people
#2 South Africa0.496008 per 1,000 people
#3 Jamaica0.324196 per 1,000 people
#4 Venezuela0.316138 per 1,000 people
#5 Russia0.201534 per 1,000 people
#6 Mexico0.130213 per 1,000 people
#7 Estonia0.107277 per 1,000 people
#8 Latvia0.10393 per 1,000 people
#9 Lithuania0.102863 per 1,000 people
#10 Belarus0.0983495 per 1,000 people
#11 Ukraine0.094006 per 1,000 people
#12 Papua New Guinea0.0838593 per 1,000 people
#13 Kyrgyzstan0.0802565 per 1,000 people
#14 Thailand0.0800798 per 1,000 people
#15 Moldova0.0781145 per 1,000 people
#16 Zimbabwe0.0749938 per 1,000 people
#17 Seychelles0.0739025 per 1,000 people
#18 Zambia0.070769 per 1,000 people
#19 Costa Rica0.061006 per 1,000 people
#20 Poland0.0562789 per 1,000 people
#21 Georgia0.0511011 per 1,000 people
#22 Uruguay0.045082 per 1,000 people
#23 Bulgaria0.0445638 per 1,000 people
#24 United States0.042802 per 1,000 people |
If you notice, I said "industrialized countries". Your list there is a bunch of third world countries and a few former soviet republics. But I suppose the former soviet republics qualify as industrialized.
Care to post the murder rates for the countries in Western Europe, or for Canada, or even Japan or China? You know...countries that are on par with the United States as far as what we consider "civilized".
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Originally Posted by drex
We have police and jail because we don't let citizens take care of their own problems and because we don't kill people or chop off their hands, tongues, etc. for crimes they commit.
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Yes, and we just keep packing more and more people away in jails. In 1973, there were 7 prisons here in New York State. Today there are 73 prisons in New York State. And the population of New York has not grown since 1973. The rest of the country has seen a similar trend.