Iraq crisis: Isis jihadists 'seize Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons stockpile'
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kingblaze84 wrote: »I should have said wide scale invasions since Vietnam, yes I forgot America invaded Panama and some other places in the 80s, although they weren't really huge invasions like those in Iraq or Vietnam. Vietnam was an invasion for sure and I meant to say it took America a long time to do another wide scale invasion after Vietnam
the gap would likely be between the DR and Grenada (18 years)
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kingblaze84 wrote: »and my instinct tells me Americans won't have the appetite for that for a long time.
yes, unless a disaster of a "foreign" nature costs American lives a la lusitania (wwi), gulf of tonkin (vietnam), pearl harbor (wwii), or 9/11 (every war since afghanistan). -
kingblaze84 wrote: »I should have said wide scale invasions since Vietnam, yes I forgot America invaded Panama and some other places in the 80s, although they weren't really huge invasions like those in Iraq or Vietnam. Vietnam was an invasion for sure and I meant to say it took America a long time to do another wide scale invasion after Vietnam
the gap would likely be between the DR and Grenada (18 years)
OK I'll take your word for it, although I heard troops invaded the communist parts of Vietnam time to time. Perhaps I heard wrong -
kingblaze84 wrote: »and my instinct tells me Americans won't have the appetite for that for a long time.
yes, unless a disaster of a "foreign" nature costs American lives a la lusitania (wwi), gulf of tonkin (vietnam), pearl harbor (wwii), or 9/11 (every war since afghanistan).
Oh yeah without question. And then Americans will get tired of war again after awhile.... -
kingblaze84 wrote: »OK I'll take your word for it, although I heard troops invaded the communist parts of Vietnam time to time. Perhaps I heard wrong
now, i'm drawing a blank on any circumstance where we had troops in North Vietnam BUT it's entirely possible i'm overlooking something, so if you can cite something...
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kingblaze84 wrote: »OK I'll take your word for it, although I heard troops invaded the communist parts of Vietnam time to time. Perhaps I heard wrong
now, i'm drawing a blank on any circumstance where we had troops in North Vietnam BUT it's entirely possible i'm overlooking something, so if you can cite something...
I'll have to look that up. I'm fairly certain I heard American troops sent large amount of troops into Viet Cong territory on communist land
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kingblaze84 wrote: »I'll have to look that up. I'm fairly certain I heard American troops sent large amount of troops into Viet Cong territory on communist land
now, as admitted, we DID have interdiction(s) into Laos and Cambodia for the purposes of attacking NVA supply lines, but for technical reasons, these would not qualify as invasions.