> GD> Your operating from a standpoint that the (U.S.) will be the ones 
who are
> GD> going to lose, this is not our nature.
> GD> History has shown again and again that we finish what someone else
> GD> starts.
>  
> This seems like the hallmark of short memories. The War of 1812 was 
not
> successful (technically the US lost it), you got your asses whipped 
in New
> Orleans,

Actually it was the Brits who had their asses handed to them at New 
Orleans.  The British commanding general, Packenham, was killed there.

 you backed Napoleon who got defeated, you backed the South-Vietnamese
> regime which became defeated (as was yourself),

mainly because the press and leftists in congress wouldn't allow the US 
to do what was necessary.  The US could have - and should have IMO - 
executed a "Sherman's March" through NORTH Vietnam.

 the US only joined WW2 after
> the fortunes of war in Europe had already turned against the Nazis,

Arguable, although Hitler's attack on Russia - absent any support from 
the Western powers - would probably have been successful.  Had Hitler 
been able to stop Allied support to Russia through Archangel Russia 
would have been in deep kimchi.

 the US did
> not achieve military (or any other) success in Afghanistan nor Iraq 
nor Iran,
> the Spanish-American war was started on a lie (as was the invasion of 
Iraq),
> that landing at Mogadishu which was a joke and the US are still stuck 
in South
> Korea, the British and Canadians bailed the US out at Omaha Beach or 
it would
> have been a total carnage... there's more of that.
>  
> GD> Our military budget is bigger then some of the foreign nations 
total
> GD> wealth.
>  
> Your national debt is bigger too than that of the rest of the world 
combined.

And since 1994 has been doubling every eight years.

It took this country just under 200 years to run up a debt of one 
trillion dollars and about twenty more years to add a second trillion 
to it.  As I said, now it doubles about every eight years, although it 
may be going up faster now.

As a side note the overwhelming majority of US government spending is 
on welfare (vote-buying) programs.  Roughly 75% of spending is on those 
programs and only about 15% is on the military.  The interest on the 
national debt is almost half as much as total military spending.
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