Coalition of the Confused
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Confused malcontents swilling Chardonnay while awaiting the Zombie Apocalypse.
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Is North Korea a nuclear threat? Asia
From: PTG (anotherPTG)
4/20/19
Is this person for real?
Or even a person rather than an "intelligent" chimpanzee playing with its typewriter?
My finger is now hovering on the ignore button as life is too short to be even glancing at such offensive offerings
From: katiek2
4/20/19
I was wondering the same thing this afternoon. You've just made the decision for me. Ignore is on!
From: BerrySteph
4/21/19
Jenifer (Zarknorph) said:What?! Hiroshima? Nagasaki? Ringing any bells?
The US did not attack Japan - it retaliated once Japan had attacked them.
You seem to be as bad at US history as Americans are.
I'll give you a clue - the very last time that the US attacked anyone capable of retaliating was 207 years ago.
From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
4/22/19
That's a mighty fine hair you're splitting.
Either way, didn't the US have their asses handed to them by Vietnam?
From: Di (amina046)
4/22/19
Did you forget 1983?
United States invades Grenada
President Ronald Reagan, citing the threat posed to American nationals on the Caribbean nation of Grenada by that nation's Marxist regime, orders the Marines to
Read more from HISTORY- Edited April 22, 2019 11:14 pm by Di (amina046)
From: Di (amina046)
4/22/19
And 1989?
The U.S. invades Panama
The United States invades Panama in an attempt to overthrow military dictator Manuel Noriega, who had been indicted in the United States on drug trafficking
Read more from HISTORYFrom: BerrySteph
4/23/19
Jenifer (Zarknorph) said:That's a mighty fine hair you're splitting.
Don't think so. It can be argued that the US pushed Germany and Japan into war but not that they confronted them or attacked them.
Either way, didn't the US have their asses handed to them by Vietnam?
It seems not. The part of the North Vietnamese leadership that knew about and escaped the Christmas Bombing were collaborators with the US and opened the countries doors to a new colonialisation by debt (including paying the debts of the losing Saigon government!)
From: BerrySteph
4/23/19
Grenada and Panama elegantly illustrate my point.
Nobody else attacks small and distant countries and colonises them under puppet governments.
Haven't done so since Germany and Belgium attempted to colonise parts of Africa.
Nearly illustrates the other point - the US never attacks nations able to retaliate.