Text 13729, 151 rader
Skriven 2008-03-29 22:00:10 av Frank Vest (1:124/6308.1)
  Kommentar till text 13630 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
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On (28 Mar 08) Ward Dossche wrote to Frank Vest...

Hello Ward,


 WD> FV>FV> How can we when the world cries "Help us anyway you can"
 WD> 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.

 WD> Attached is an incomplete list of wars the US was involved in during
 WD> the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Picked it up from the internet.

 WD> Somehow I have difficulty to believe that Tecumseh requested aid from
 WD> the US. Or Black Hawk, or Red Cloud.

 WD> Were the Seminole, Winnebago, Modoc, Black Hills, Nez Perce, Bannock
 WD> and Cheyenne wars intended to liberate these people or to subject
 WD> them?

 WD> The 1890's Pine Ridge campaign was a disgrace.

 WD> The US did not get involved in the 2 most major wars in history until
 WD> it got attacked itself despite requests of its friends.

 WD> And the list indeed is incomplete. The occupation of Hawaii e.g. is
 WD> missing.

 WD> Honestly, Frank, in how many of these wars was help requested? Why
 WD> isn't Nicaragua on the list of wars? Or the military aid to topple
 WD> Allende in Chili? Or the Gulf of Tonkin incident?

 WD> I can't think of any other country with that many military excursions
 WD> in the last 250 years ...

Then perhaps I was mistaken and should have stated that the USA should
have gotten involved in more wars so thet the world would already have
its global government. Bush could have been the President of the
Earth. That would have fixed everything. Damn us USA'ians anyway. We
screwed up.

Sdrager,
Knarf


 WD>  \%/@rd


 WD> ****************************************
 WD> First Barbary War, 1801 - 1805
 WD> Sabine Expedition, 1806
 WD> War of 1812, 1812 - 1815
 WD> Tecumseh's Rebellion, 1811 - 1813
 WD> Lake Champlain Campaign, 1812 - 1814
 WD> Niagara Campaign, 1812 - 1814
 WD> Detroit Campaign, 1812 - 1814
 WD> Chesapeake Campaign, 1813 - 1814
 WD> Creek War, 1813 - 1814
 WD> Peoria War, 1813
 WD> Southern Campaign,
 WD> Second Barbary War, 1815
 WD> First Seminole War, 1817 - 1818
 WD> Winnebago War, 1827
 WD> Black Hawk War, 1832
 WD> Second Seminole War, 1835 - 1842
 WD> Mexican-American War, 1846 - 1848
 WD> Cayuse War, 1847 - 1855
 WD> Third Seminole War, 1855 - 1858
 WD> American Civil War, 1861 - 1865
 WD> Colorado War, 1863 - 1865
 WD> Reconstruction, 1865-1876
 WD> Red Cloud's War, 1866 - 1868
 WD> Korean Expedition, 1871
 WD> Modoc War, 1872 - 1873
 WD> Red River War, 1874 - 1875
 WD> Black Hills War, 1876 - 1877
 WD> Nez Perce War, 1877
 WD> Bannock War, 1878
 WD> Cheyenne War, 1878 - 1879
 WD> Sheepeater Indian War, 1879
 WD> Ute War, 1879-1880
 WD> Pine Ridge Campaign, 1890-1891
 WD> Battle of Leech Lake, 1898
 WD> Spanish-American War, 1898
 WD> Philippine Insurrection, 1899 - 1902
 WD> ****************************************
 WD> Boxer Rebellion, 1900 - 1902
 WD> Banana Wars:
 WD> United States occupation of Nicaragua, 1909-1933
 WD> United States occupation of Veracruz, 1914
 WD> United States occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934
 WD> Mexican Expedition, 1916 - 1917
 WD> United States occupation of the Dominican Republic, 1917-1924
 WD> Battle at Nogales, Arizona, 1917
 WD> World War I, 1917 – 1918
 WD> Polar Bear Expedition, 1918 - 1919
 WD> American Expeditionary Force Siberia, Soviet Union, 1918 - 1920
 WD> Yangtze Patrol, 1920's
 WD> World War II, 1941 - 1945
 WD> Cold War, 1947 - 1990 with the following hot wars and campaigns:
 WD> Korean Conflict, 1950 - 1953
 WD> Operation PBFORTUNE, Guatemala, 1952
 WD> Operation Ajax, 1953
 WD> Operation PBSUCCESS, Guatemala, 1954
 WD> Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuba, 1961
 WD> Vietnam War, 1962 - 1973
 WD> Laotian Civil War, 1962 - 1973
 WD> Cambodian Civil War, 1969 - 1970
 WD> Operation Powerpack, Dominican Republic, 1965 - 1966
 WD> Operation Urgent Fury, Invasion of Grenada, 1983
 WD> Operation Blue Bat, Lebanon, 1958
 WD> Operation Eagle Claw, Iran hostage crisis, 1980
 WD> First Gulf of Sidra Incident, Libya, 1981
 WD> Operation El Dorado Canyon, Libya, 1986
 WD> Iran-Iraq War, 1987 - 1989
 WD> Operation Just Cause, Panama 1989 - 1990
 WD> Second Gulf of Sidra Incident, Libya, 1989
 WD> Persian Gulf War, Iraq, 1991
 WD> Operation Desert Shield, 1991
 WD> Operation Desert Storm, 1991
 WD> Somali Civil War, 1992 - 1994
 WD> Operation Provide Relief, 1992
 WD> Operation Restore Hope, 1992 - 1994
 WD> Yugoslav wars, 1994 - 1999
 WD> Bosnian Conflict, 1994 - 1995
 WD> Kosovo Conflict, 1997 - 1999
 WD> *********************************************************
 WD> War on Terrorism, 2001 - present
 WD> Operation Enduring Freedom - Afghanistan 2001 - present
 WD> Operation Enduring Freedom - Philippines 2002 - present
 WD> Operation Enduring Freedom - Horn of Africa 2002 - present
 WD> Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003 - present
 WD> Waziristan War, 2004 - present
 WD> War in Somalia, 2006 - present
 WD> Operation Enduring Freedom - Trans Sahara 2007 - present

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