Add to this the fact that death counts are nothing compared to what they were even then. 4,500 americans died in iraq and only 2,500 died in afghanistan. These were across 20 years and both of those combined is less americans than died on d-day or
from smoking in a week.
You could argue that every one of those was unnecessary but the people on /pol/ telling you "don't die for israel" have very different aims in mind.
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Most Muslims don't give a flying shit if the Palestinians die. Even if America gets all the boys together, goes out, and they kill every single Palestinian man, woman, and child, nothing will change with the greater Muslim world. Especially if America continues to buy oil from them.
Granted, they'll pretend they care; they'll put up strong words of protest; some of their more radical members might even deface a church or bomb a US base, but at the end of the day, they'll settle down and get back to work. Palestine is nothing but something they bitch about for the sake of bitching.
While it gets exaggerated there is also something to be said for "showing people you won't fuck around." When turdies sense weakness they strike. When somebody fights back they cower. America and the west have a lot of nice shit and every nation on earth wants a piece of it. It might have taken 20 years of complacency but if they thought there would be no repercussions for coming after our shit they would have done it. The world is a prison yard and nobody wants to fuck with the big crazy guy. Everyone will fuck with the nice guy.
Depends. France was the big crazy guy during the days of Louis XIV and Napoleon, and damn near everyone ganged up on them. Eventually, people just get tired of the crazy asshole upending the world order for the 50th time because he feels jilted or something, and everyone just gangs up on the bitch to tell him to shut the fuck up. That's why Napoleon died in bitter exile, and Louis XIV died in misery leaving France in deep debt. They built the strongest empires in the western world for their time, but even that didn't save them after pissing off the world.
Also, being the "nice guy" worked well for the Chileans; Pinochet would openly act nice and try to get along with his visitors and politicians, then he makes a few "suggestions" to some armed men that some troublemakers need to be thrown out of a chopper, and they go do it. If you're nice enough to have lots of friends, you can just suggest to them that someone troublesome needs to go, and they go do it. I mean, when America was acting like the world police against Communism in the latter half of the 1900s, a lot of generals, dictators, and juntas were happy to kill Uncle Sam's enemies to keep his hands clean.
Oh yeah the DOD put out the new Peace Through Strength ad with Pete and Trump talking over it. No Emma and her gay moms. Raw power and showcasing a lot of the new tech.
They're acting like hyper-masculine bullshit will win the next war, when that shit was outdated back in Vietnam. It's the technology and know-how that wins wars nowadays. I wouldn't be surprised if the next war is won by some fat nerds piloting drones 500 miles away from the battlefield.
" the navy has a gay enough reputation as it is.
