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Skriven 2008-03-28 08:06:30 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
     Kommentar till en text av Frank Vest
Ärende:  e: Thought crime...again
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Frank,
 
FV>FV> How can we when the world cries "Help us anyway you can"
FV>BF>    It does? When? Where? Who?
 
FV> The USA was dragged into several wars and conflicts that they did not
FV> wish to be it. All asking for help in any form as long as they won.
 
Attached is an incomplete list of wars the US was involved in during the 19th,
20th and 21st centuries. Picked it up from the internet.
 
Somehow I have difficulty to believe that Tecumseh requested aid from the US.
Or Black Hawk, or Red Cloud.
 
Were the Seminole, Winnebago, Modoc, Black Hills, Nez Perce, Bannock and
Cheyenne wars intended to liberate these people or to subject them?
 
The 1890's Pine Ridge campaign was a disgrace.
 
The US did not get involved in the 2 most major wars in history until it got
attacked itself despite requests of its friends.
 
And the list indeed is incomplete. The occupation of Hawaii e.g. is missing.
 
Honestly, Frank, in how many of these wars was help requested? Why isn't
Nicaragua on the list of wars? Or the military aid to topple Allende in Chili?
Or the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
 
I can't think of any other country with that many military excursions in the
last 250 years ...
 
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First Barbary War, 1801 - 1805
Sabine Expedition, 1806
War of 1812, 1812 - 1815
Tecumseh's Rebellion, 1811 - 1813
Lake Champlain Campaign, 1812 - 1814
Niagara Campaign, 1812 - 1814
Detroit Campaign, 1812 - 1814
Chesapeake Campaign, 1813 - 1814
Creek War, 1813 - 1814
Peoria War, 1813
Southern Campaign,
Second Barbary War, 1815
First Seminole War, 1817 - 1818
Winnebago War, 1827
Black Hawk War, 1832
Second Seminole War, 1835 - 1842
Mexican-American War, 1846 - 1848
Cayuse War, 1847 - 1855
Third Seminole War, 1855 - 1858
American Civil War, 1861 - 1865
Colorado War, 1863 - 1865
Reconstruction, 1865-1876
Red Cloud's War, 1866 - 1868
Korean Expedition, 1871
Modoc War, 1872 - 1873
Red River War, 1874 - 1875
Black Hills War, 1876 - 1877
Nez Perce War, 1877
Bannock War, 1878
Cheyenne War, 1878 - 1879
Sheepeater Indian War, 1879
Ute War, 1879-1880
Pine Ridge Campaign, 1890-1891
Battle of Leech Lake, 1898
Spanish-American War, 1898
Philippine Insurrection, 1899 - 1902
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Boxer Rebellion, 1900 - 1902
Banana Wars:
United States occupation of Nicaragua, 1909-1933
United States occupation of Veracruz, 1914
United States occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934
Mexican Expedition, 1916 - 1917
United States occupation of the Dominican Republic, 1917-1924
Battle at Nogales, Arizona, 1917
World War I, 1917 – 1918
Polar Bear Expedition, 1918 - 1919
American Expeditionary Force Siberia, Soviet Union, 1918 - 1920
Yangtze Patrol, 1920's
World War II, 1941 - 1945
Cold War, 1947 - 1990 with the following hot wars and campaigns:
Korean Conflict, 1950 - 1953
Operation PBFORTUNE, Guatemala, 1952
Operation Ajax, 1953
Operation PBSUCCESS, Guatemala, 1954
Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuba, 1961
Vietnam War, 1962 - 1973
Laotian Civil War, 1962 - 1973
Cambodian Civil War, 1969 - 1970
Operation Powerpack, Dominican Republic, 1965 - 1966
Operation Urgent Fury, Invasion of Grenada, 1983
Operation Blue Bat, Lebanon, 1958
Operation Eagle Claw, Iran hostage crisis, 1980
First Gulf of Sidra Incident, Libya, 1981
Operation El Dorado Canyon, Libya, 1986
Iran-Iraq War, 1987 - 1989
Operation Just Cause, Panama 1989 - 1990
Second Gulf of Sidra Incident, Libya, 1989
Persian Gulf War, Iraq, 1991
Operation Desert Shield, 1991
Operation Desert Storm, 1991
Somali Civil War, 1992 - 1994
Operation Provide Relief, 1992
Operation Restore Hope, 1992 - 1994
Yugoslav wars, 1994 - 1999
Bosnian Conflict, 1994 - 1995
Kosovo Conflict, 1997 - 1999
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War on Terrorism, 2001 - present
Operation Enduring Freedom - Afghanistan 2001 - present
Operation Enduring Freedom - Philippines 2002 - present
Operation Enduring Freedom - Horn of Africa 2002 - present
Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003 - present
Waziristan War, 2004 - present
War in Somalia, 2006 - present
Operation Enduring Freedom - Trans Sahara 2007 - present

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