The USA was born in war. We've spent more time fighting other nations and peoples than we've had time to enjoy the freedoms we fought for in our first war. Let's look at our timeline.
1776-83 - USA is born and we've been fighting the British and their supporters since 1775.
1776-95 - Chicamunga War with the Cherokee in the Old Southwest that today are the states of Missouri, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and parts of Tennessee, Kentucky and Florida.
1785-93 - Northwest Indian War where the Brits were mucking about again. This time in what is now Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, basically the lands around the Ohio River. The Brits lost...again.
1786-87 - Shay's Rebellion. Basically an armed anti-government uprising by a bunch of unhappy schmucks in Massachusetts. They lost too.
1791-94 - Whiskey Rebellion. Western Pennsylvania. A group of angry (most likely drunk) anti-tax rebels. A protest that got violent for several years over the disagreement of being taxed on things like Whiskey. The taxes were supposed to be used to pay off Revolutionary War debts. (Hmmm. The sign of things to come many, many years from now.)
1798-1800 - Quasi-War was a war with France over non-payment of debt. The US refused to pay because the money was owed to the previous French regime that was toppled by the new government. It was fought mostly at sea. It cost us more to not pay than if we just paid the goddam debt.
1801-05 - The First Barbary War was a war where the US and Sweden fought the Barbary states (North Africa, includes Morocco, Tunis, Algeria and Libya) over Barbary pirates attacking American and Swedish merchant ships. The second war was a real short one in 1815-16.
1811-1900 - Battles and confrontations between Indigenous Native Americans (Indians) span nearly a century. Wars, battles, skirmishes, mass murders (by both sides) made up for a bloody 19th century. There were so many wars and conflicts I just couldn't stand listing them all. It was depressing me. During a brief time span between 1883-85 there were no noted Indian Wars. There were about 40 noted war or war-like confrontations in that 90 year span. The most against any nation of people.
1812-15 - War with the Brits again over trading with France, etc.
1825-28 - Aegean Sea Anti-Piracy Operations was to stop Greek pirates.
1835-36 - Texas Revolution. Texans fighting for their independence from Mexico. Remember the Alamo.
1846-48 - Mexican American War.
1855 - The First Fiji Expedition. American interests being toyed with. So, we went in to police the natives with extreme prejudice. We lost one and two wounded. It was not known if any Fijians were killed or wounded. Again, sticking our sticks into places where we should not have tread.
1855-61 - Bloody Kansas was a military conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery "Free Staters", also known as the Border War.
1856-59 - Second Opium War was not our war as much as England's and France's against the Chinese. We jumped in to help them. I guess we didn't have enough to do already.
1857-58 - Utah War where instead of Indians we fought the Mormons. Yay, USA!
1859 - The Second Fiji Expedition. Payback for two Americans being killed and cannibalized. Well what the hell were they doing in a place like Fiji? It's not like it is today. It was downright third worldly.
1861-65 - American Civil War. Battle over states' rights and too a lesser degree abolishment of slavery.
1871 - Korean Expedition. What started out as an attempt to start trade and diplomatic relations in Korea became an armed conflict that lasted a month. That must have been one hot summer.
1891-93 - Garza Revolution. Yet another war with Mexico but this time we fought with them against revolutionaries in Mexico. We're such good neighbors.
Let's recap. In the first 100 years, the U.S. had been in some sort of major confrontation with someone or some country for 91 of its first 100 years. In the nineteenth century only five years were battle free. The twentieth century would fair a little better.
1898 - Spanish-American War. This was a real short and not so bloody war. It lasted four months.
1898-1934 - Banana Wars. Not a battle over bananas as much as the U.S. trying to protect their "interests" in Central America. Mostly the U.S. fighting indigenous peoples over their land, etc. A theme that had guided the U.S. government over the preceding 100 plus years.
1909 - Crazy Snake Rebellion. The U.S. taking on the Creek Indians.
1910-19 - Border War. Part of the Mexican Revolution. We were fighting the Mexicans and not supporting them this time.
1914-15 - Bluff War was one of the last armed conflicts between the United States and native Americans (Ute and Paiute tribes) over land specifically Bluff, Utah.
1917-18 - US involvement in World War I or commonly known at that time as "The Great War."
1918-20 - Russian Civil War. We fought on the side of the then current Russian regime. We and they lost. We had no business there as we had no business in many other Civil Wars. Vietnam and Korea comes to mind.
1923 - Posey War. Again another confrontation in Utah with the Ute and Paiute tribes over the same Bluff, Utah area. This was probably the "very" last U.S. versus native American people wars/skirmishes/police action/aggression between the two. The finality of the Ute/Paiute loss was they were captured and banished to the deserts of Navajo Mountain. However, once their leader, Chief Posey, passed away, the rest of the native American prisoners were freed and given land to farm and live off. They received a much better deal than the native Americans before or the former African slaves ever received.
Then for the next nearly twenty years, the United States lived a time of no war and relative freedom and prosperity until 1929 when the whole kit and caboodle went into the shitter. But thanks to Adoph Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Emperor Hirohito, we were involved in another World War. (How Spain and Portugal were considered neutral and non-belligerent is beyond my understanding. General Franco of Spain was not only Pro-Axis power; he was gay for Hitler.)
1941-45 - World War II. Anyone who has read a history book, watched reenacted war movies or the Hitler, er, History Channel will know what this shit-storm was all about. And we won. Probably the last war we were involved in where we really won and could feel proud for being in a war. Most of the others, at least from my POV, not so much. [Hanging my head in shame.]
1945-79; 1985-91 - The Cold War. One of the few wars where all American lives were affected but not many died compared to previous wars. The U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. had a nearly fifty year dick-measuring battle. In the end, we won. Our dick was bigger.
Of course there were wars during these times. Wars where other countries fought while the Soviet and American puppet-masters pulling the strings. The short list:
1950-53 - Korean War. This was, to make it simple, was about politics and political ideologies. After Japan relinquished its hold on Korea, the Russians saved the North from democracy and the U.S. backed the South. Long story short, stalemate. No one won and the conflict still exists today with occasional no man's land (DMZ) skirmishes.
1961 - Bay of Pigs Invasion. The failed coup to overthrow and assassinate Castro.
1964 - Simba Rebellion. This was more a civil war in Congo, but because we supported the current regime and the Russians/Soviets supported the Simba rebels, it was considered part of the Cold War.
1983 - Invasion of Grenada. Deposition of a military dictator and reestablishment of a constitutional government. (I wonder if anyone is going to do that for us.)
So while we were messing about fighting the Soviets in a very passive-aggressive manner, we were also sticking our big stick in other countries' battles.
1958 - Lebanon Crisis.
1965-66 - Dominican Civil War
1965-73; 75 - Vietnam War. The big one that tore the U.S. apart domestically, politically and socially. We were out of Nam by 1973 but it wasn't until President Ford announced it in 1975 that the war was over.
1965-83 - Communist insurgency in Thailand. We were involved mostly through the Air Force, but we still had our business all up in theirs. Again, this was more a civil war. We took the side of the sitting regime and not the rebels.
For a few years in the mid-1950s and early 1960s, we stayed out of other people's fights and were left alone to prosper except at home we had our own shit coming undone with civil unrest due to civil rights marches and protests. Something that had been long overdue.
If you want to know the score for the next 100 years and the first 200:
Wars - 82 years
Peace - 18 years
Through the Bicentennial, Wars - 173 years and Peace - 27 years. A very impressive, 86.5%. Unless you were born in the right era and lived a very short life, you've never known peace.
From the 1980s through today, we've been knee deep in blood, gore and blech. Here's another quick list you can digest:
1982-84 - Lebanese Civil War. The war started in '75 and ended in '90, but we were only involved for a few years. Why? Who the furk knows?
1987-88 - Tanker War against Iran in the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War. That was started around '80 and ended in '88. Iraq attacked Iran. Because of protecting our interests (oil) and shipping lanes, we sided with Saddam and helped the Iraqis. {shrugging shoulders}
1989-90 - Invasion of Panama. One word: Noriega. Panama's version of Hitler.
1990-91 - Gulf War. A bunch of countries in the Middle East and from around the world and us kicking Iraq's ass. Saddam Hussein thought we were friends. Ha! Friends don't allow friends to invade Kuwait. That's our furking oil.
1992-95 - Somali Civil War. One of those wars we had no business in, but because everyone else was there, we had to join the party. We left after getting our asses kicked in Mogadishu. I don't think we've ever gone back and the Civil War there is an ongoing event. Almost like New Year's Eve with the fireworks all the time but with occasional death.
1994-95 - Intervention in Haiti. Reestablish the previous President,who was coup d'étated by a Haitian military regime. It was coined Operation Uphold Democracy. As if! This was a strange bunch of bedfellows: United States, Argentina and Poland booting out the Haitian military government. I wonder what was in that pipe they were passing around when they said Yes to this deal. However, this was a sanctioned event by the United Nations. (Those lazy bunch of asses.)
Bosnian War was around the same time. It was part of the Yugoslav Wars (1991-2001). It all had to do with Ethnic cleansing. We were part of the NATO forces attempting to stop this nightmare. I don't think our efforts worked. It stopped only after everybody was dead and the land was free of humanity. At least, that's what it seemed like.
1998-99 - Kosovo War. Back at it again. Part Two to the Yugoslav Wars. We were part of the NATO forces again. Trying to keep the peace or piece. Everything was very much in pieces in that part of Europe by then.
The score for the twentieth century: We were War-involved for, I'll go out on a limb and say, 90 years. Okay. So I fibbed. We were as bad in the Twentieth Century as we were in the Nineteenth Century. We just love our guns and fighting people. Quiet, gentle negotiation is our last resort.
This brings us to the Twenty-first Century. We are batting 1.000. I counted 2000 as Twentieth Century. Otherwise my statement would be false. I believe in the year 2000, we were all too drunk or too frightened that all our electrical shit wasn't going to work to be killing each other. You know life as we know it would have ended if we couldn't surf the net and play video games.
Every year since the calendar flipped to 2001, we've been at war with someone...mostly the Middle East...mostly Afghanistan or Iraq with a quick side-track to Libya and Pakistan. All these wars have their own names. They generally fall under the title of War on Terror.
2001-2014 - War in Afghanistan. And it's really not over yet.
2015 - Present - Part Deux. War in Afghanistan, the sequel. Will these MotherFathers ever die???
2003-11 - Iraq War. Last time was for Kuwait. This time it was for Daddy Bush.
2004 - Present - War in North-West Pakistan. Did anyone really know we've been fighting Pakistan? Well, our drones have been anyway. Should have been called the Attack of the Drones. (Ha! Play on words. Star Wars reference. I'm setting my inner nerd free.)
2011 - Military intervention in Libya. We finally had enough of Gaddafi, Quadaffi, Qadaffi, Daffy Ducky, however, you spell his furping name. He dead. We took the credit, but it was a team effort. About 40 countries (NATO) wanted a piece of this MotherFather.
2014 - Present - War on ISIL (Operation Inherent Resolve) It's part of the Iraqi Civil War, Syrian Civil War, Second Libyan Civil War, Boko Haram insurgency, and the War on Terror. It's a lot of poop hitting the flappity flap. This is a war where most of Europe, the Middle East and the USA stopped by to "end" the plaque known as ISIL, ISIS, or whatever and a bunch of other assholes whose names I can't pronounce or spell. This is being fought in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Nigeria. Places no one would vacation in even if they threw in a free movie on the plane ride.
That's the story and I'm sticking to it. I didn't know as much of this as I'm leading on. I did quite a bit of research. And when I saw the length of the list and started to read about all the many different wars and conflicts, I immediately turned to the Christian Bible. Picked it up and threw it in the trash can. The Talmud, the Qur'an and the Bhagavad Gita followed it shortly after. I can't believe there's a God of any persuasion that would have allowed the carnage that has gone on in the 240 years since this country declared its independence, not to mention, but I will, since mankind crawled out of its caves and formed nations.
Tally to date: We've been involved with bloodshed of other human beings for 221 years. That's an unimpressive involvement percentage of 92%. Are we more warlike than any other culture? No. We're probably all about the same. But we're America, dammit. We're better then that. At least, we should be. And I don't mean to say that we were 221 continuous years of bloodshed. Some of those years, the battles or wars were short. Months. Sometimes, days in length. I went with any part of the year counted as a whole year. They're my statistics and I can do whatever the hell I want with them. Write your own piece if you think I'm off my rocker. Just because you can put together an army doesn't mean you need to use it so damn often. I'm getting preachy. What else is new? I'm always preachy and grumbling. It's what I do. If you want to see how horrible the world is generally, check this out. Ongoing armed conflicts. But I wish to leave you with this.
Disclaimer: I got all my information from the internet. Some alternative facts or reality may have been present.
1776-83 - USA is born and we've been fighting the British and their supporters since 1775.
1776-95 - Chicamunga War with the Cherokee in the Old Southwest that today are the states of Missouri, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and parts of Tennessee, Kentucky and Florida.
1785-93 - Northwest Indian War where the Brits were mucking about again. This time in what is now Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, basically the lands around the Ohio River. The Brits lost...again.
1786-87 - Shay's Rebellion. Basically an armed anti-government uprising by a bunch of unhappy schmucks in Massachusetts. They lost too.
1791-94 - Whiskey Rebellion. Western Pennsylvania. A group of angry (most likely drunk) anti-tax rebels. A protest that got violent for several years over the disagreement of being taxed on things like Whiskey. The taxes were supposed to be used to pay off Revolutionary War debts. (Hmmm. The sign of things to come many, many years from now.)
1798-1800 - Quasi-War was a war with France over non-payment of debt. The US refused to pay because the money was owed to the previous French regime that was toppled by the new government. It was fought mostly at sea. It cost us more to not pay than if we just paid the goddam debt.
1801-05 - The First Barbary War was a war where the US and Sweden fought the Barbary states (North Africa, includes Morocco, Tunis, Algeria and Libya) over Barbary pirates attacking American and Swedish merchant ships. The second war was a real short one in 1815-16.
1811-1900 - Battles and confrontations between Indigenous Native Americans (Indians) span nearly a century. Wars, battles, skirmishes, mass murders (by both sides) made up for a bloody 19th century. There were so many wars and conflicts I just couldn't stand listing them all. It was depressing me. During a brief time span between 1883-85 there were no noted Indian Wars. There were about 40 noted war or war-like confrontations in that 90 year span. The most against any nation of people.
1812-15 - War with the Brits again over trading with France, etc.
1825-28 - Aegean Sea Anti-Piracy Operations was to stop Greek pirates.
1835-36 - Texas Revolution. Texans fighting for their independence from Mexico. Remember the Alamo.
1846-48 - Mexican American War.
1855 - The First Fiji Expedition. American interests being toyed with. So, we went in to police the natives with extreme prejudice. We lost one and two wounded. It was not known if any Fijians were killed or wounded. Again, sticking our sticks into places where we should not have tread.
1855-61 - Bloody Kansas was a military conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery "Free Staters", also known as the Border War.
1856-59 - Second Opium War was not our war as much as England's and France's against the Chinese. We jumped in to help them. I guess we didn't have enough to do already.
1857-58 - Utah War where instead of Indians we fought the Mormons. Yay, USA!
1859 - The Second Fiji Expedition. Payback for two Americans being killed and cannibalized. Well what the hell were they doing in a place like Fiji? It's not like it is today. It was downright third worldly.
1861-65 - American Civil War. Battle over states' rights and too a lesser degree abolishment of slavery.
1871 - Korean Expedition. What started out as an attempt to start trade and diplomatic relations in Korea became an armed conflict that lasted a month. That must have been one hot summer.
1891-93 - Garza Revolution. Yet another war with Mexico but this time we fought with them against revolutionaries in Mexico. We're such good neighbors.
Let's recap. In the first 100 years, the U.S. had been in some sort of major confrontation with someone or some country for 91 of its first 100 years. In the nineteenth century only five years were battle free. The twentieth century would fair a little better.
1898 - Spanish-American War. This was a real short and not so bloody war. It lasted four months.
1898-1934 - Banana Wars. Not a battle over bananas as much as the U.S. trying to protect their "interests" in Central America. Mostly the U.S. fighting indigenous peoples over their land, etc. A theme that had guided the U.S. government over the preceding 100 plus years.
1909 - Crazy Snake Rebellion. The U.S. taking on the Creek Indians.
1910-19 - Border War. Part of the Mexican Revolution. We were fighting the Mexicans and not supporting them this time.
1914-15 - Bluff War was one of the last armed conflicts between the United States and native Americans (Ute and Paiute tribes) over land specifically Bluff, Utah.
1917-18 - US involvement in World War I or commonly known at that time as "The Great War."
1918-20 - Russian Civil War. We fought on the side of the then current Russian regime. We and they lost. We had no business there as we had no business in many other Civil Wars. Vietnam and Korea comes to mind.
1923 - Posey War. Again another confrontation in Utah with the Ute and Paiute tribes over the same Bluff, Utah area. This was probably the "very" last U.S. versus native American people wars/skirmishes/police action/aggression between the two. The finality of the Ute/Paiute loss was they were captured and banished to the deserts of Navajo Mountain. However, once their leader, Chief Posey, passed away, the rest of the native American prisoners were freed and given land to farm and live off. They received a much better deal than the native Americans before or the former African slaves ever received.
Then for the next nearly twenty years, the United States lived a time of no war and relative freedom and prosperity until 1929 when the whole kit and caboodle went into the shitter. But thanks to Adoph Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Emperor Hirohito, we were involved in another World War. (How Spain and Portugal were considered neutral and non-belligerent is beyond my understanding. General Franco of Spain was not only Pro-Axis power; he was gay for Hitler.)
1941-45 - World War II. Anyone who has read a history book, watched reenacted war movies or the Hitler, er, History Channel will know what this shit-storm was all about. And we won. Probably the last war we were involved in where we really won and could feel proud for being in a war. Most of the others, at least from my POV, not so much. [Hanging my head in shame.]
1945-79; 1985-91 - The Cold War. One of the few wars where all American lives were affected but not many died compared to previous wars. The U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. had a nearly fifty year dick-measuring battle. In the end, we won. Our dick was bigger.
Of course there were wars during these times. Wars where other countries fought while the Soviet and American puppet-masters pulling the strings. The short list:
1950-53 - Korean War. This was, to make it simple, was about politics and political ideologies. After Japan relinquished its hold on Korea, the Russians saved the North from democracy and the U.S. backed the South. Long story short, stalemate. No one won and the conflict still exists today with occasional no man's land (DMZ) skirmishes.
1961 - Bay of Pigs Invasion. The failed coup to overthrow and assassinate Castro.
1964 - Simba Rebellion. This was more a civil war in Congo, but because we supported the current regime and the Russians/Soviets supported the Simba rebels, it was considered part of the Cold War.
1983 - Invasion of Grenada. Deposition of a military dictator and reestablishment of a constitutional government. (I wonder if anyone is going to do that for us.)
So while we were messing about fighting the Soviets in a very passive-aggressive manner, we were also sticking our big stick in other countries' battles.
1958 - Lebanon Crisis.
1965-66 - Dominican Civil War
1965-73; 75 - Vietnam War. The big one that tore the U.S. apart domestically, politically and socially. We were out of Nam by 1973 but it wasn't until President Ford announced it in 1975 that the war was over.
1965-83 - Communist insurgency in Thailand. We were involved mostly through the Air Force, but we still had our business all up in theirs. Again, this was more a civil war. We took the side of the sitting regime and not the rebels.
For a few years in the mid-1950s and early 1960s, we stayed out of other people's fights and were left alone to prosper except at home we had our own shit coming undone with civil unrest due to civil rights marches and protests. Something that had been long overdue.
If you want to know the score for the next 100 years and the first 200:
Wars - 82 years
Peace - 18 years
Through the Bicentennial, Wars - 173 years and Peace - 27 years. A very impressive, 86.5%. Unless you were born in the right era and lived a very short life, you've never known peace.
From the 1980s through today, we've been knee deep in blood, gore and blech. Here's another quick list you can digest:
1982-84 - Lebanese Civil War. The war started in '75 and ended in '90, but we were only involved for a few years. Why? Who the furk knows?
1987-88 - Tanker War against Iran in the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War. That was started around '80 and ended in '88. Iraq attacked Iran. Because of protecting our interests (oil) and shipping lanes, we sided with Saddam and helped the Iraqis. {shrugging shoulders}
1989-90 - Invasion of Panama. One word: Noriega. Panama's version of Hitler.
1990-91 - Gulf War. A bunch of countries in the Middle East and from around the world and us kicking Iraq's ass. Saddam Hussein thought we were friends. Ha! Friends don't allow friends to invade Kuwait. That's our furking oil.
1992-95 - Somali Civil War. One of those wars we had no business in, but because everyone else was there, we had to join the party. We left after getting our asses kicked in Mogadishu. I don't think we've ever gone back and the Civil War there is an ongoing event. Almost like New Year's Eve with the fireworks all the time but with occasional death.
1994-95 - Intervention in Haiti. Reestablish the previous President,who was coup d'étated by a Haitian military regime. It was coined Operation Uphold Democracy. As if! This was a strange bunch of bedfellows: United States, Argentina and Poland booting out the Haitian military government. I wonder what was in that pipe they were passing around when they said Yes to this deal. However, this was a sanctioned event by the United Nations. (Those lazy bunch of asses.)
Bosnian War was around the same time. It was part of the Yugoslav Wars (1991-2001). It all had to do with Ethnic cleansing. We were part of the NATO forces attempting to stop this nightmare. I don't think our efforts worked. It stopped only after everybody was dead and the land was free of humanity. At least, that's what it seemed like.
1998-99 - Kosovo War. Back at it again. Part Two to the Yugoslav Wars. We were part of the NATO forces again. Trying to keep the peace or piece. Everything was very much in pieces in that part of Europe by then.
The score for the twentieth century: We were War-involved for, I'll go out on a limb and say, 90 years. Okay. So I fibbed. We were as bad in the Twentieth Century as we were in the Nineteenth Century. We just love our guns and fighting people. Quiet, gentle negotiation is our last resort.
This brings us to the Twenty-first Century. We are batting 1.000. I counted 2000 as Twentieth Century. Otherwise my statement would be false. I believe in the year 2000, we were all too drunk or too frightened that all our electrical shit wasn't going to work to be killing each other. You know life as we know it would have ended if we couldn't surf the net and play video games.
Every year since the calendar flipped to 2001, we've been at war with someone...mostly the Middle East...mostly Afghanistan or Iraq with a quick side-track to Libya and Pakistan. All these wars have their own names. They generally fall under the title of War on Terror.
2001-2014 - War in Afghanistan. And it's really not over yet.
2015 - Present - Part Deux. War in Afghanistan, the sequel. Will these MotherFathers ever die???
2003-11 - Iraq War. Last time was for Kuwait. This time it was for Daddy Bush.
2004 - Present - War in North-West Pakistan. Did anyone really know we've been fighting Pakistan? Well, our drones have been anyway. Should have been called the Attack of the Drones. (Ha! Play on words. Star Wars reference. I'm setting my inner nerd free.)
2011 - Military intervention in Libya. We finally had enough of Gaddafi, Quadaffi, Qadaffi, Daffy Ducky, however, you spell his furping name. He dead. We took the credit, but it was a team effort. About 40 countries (NATO) wanted a piece of this MotherFather.
2014 - Present - War on ISIL (Operation Inherent Resolve) It's part of the Iraqi Civil War, Syrian Civil War, Second Libyan Civil War, Boko Haram insurgency, and the War on Terror. It's a lot of poop hitting the flappity flap. This is a war where most of Europe, the Middle East and the USA stopped by to "end" the plaque known as ISIL, ISIS, or whatever and a bunch of other assholes whose names I can't pronounce or spell. This is being fought in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Nigeria. Places no one would vacation in even if they threw in a free movie on the plane ride.
That's the story and I'm sticking to it. I didn't know as much of this as I'm leading on. I did quite a bit of research. And when I saw the length of the list and started to read about all the many different wars and conflicts, I immediately turned to the Christian Bible. Picked it up and threw it in the trash can. The Talmud, the Qur'an and the Bhagavad Gita followed it shortly after. I can't believe there's a God of any persuasion that would have allowed the carnage that has gone on in the 240 years since this country declared its independence, not to mention, but I will, since mankind crawled out of its caves and formed nations.
Tally to date: We've been involved with bloodshed of other human beings for 221 years. That's an unimpressive involvement percentage of 92%. Are we more warlike than any other culture? No. We're probably all about the same. But we're America, dammit. We're better then that. At least, we should be. And I don't mean to say that we were 221 continuous years of bloodshed. Some of those years, the battles or wars were short. Months. Sometimes, days in length. I went with any part of the year counted as a whole year. They're my statistics and I can do whatever the hell I want with them. Write your own piece if you think I'm off my rocker. Just because you can put together an army doesn't mean you need to use it so damn often. I'm getting preachy. What else is new? I'm always preachy and grumbling. It's what I do. If you want to see how horrible the world is generally, check this out. Ongoing armed conflicts. But I wish to leave you with this.
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