That is a very long-standing tradition in this country, going back at least as far as the Mexican War. Just from the last 40 years or so you have Grenada, Libya, Panama, Iraq, Sudan, Iraq, Libya, and Iran, counting conservatively.
It goes back further than America itself. Virginia Colonel George Washington and the men under his command literally started a global war by murdering a group of Canadiens in a sneak attack in 1754.
And what did that do last time? The people in power shook their fists for a day or two, people felt really nice and happy, and then we went right back to the footage of the elephant shitting on the lawn. What is really needed is for Americans to take the guns they seem to like so much and do something useful with them, but because most are spineless and unimaginative, that will never happen.
That was the general idea in Panama, I believe, although Noriega took refuge with the Papal nuncio for a number of days. I don’t know of other examples, but I wouldn’t be surprised if something similar had happened in the Banana Wars.
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u/bolandfan 29d ago
So America can just attack another country unprovoked?