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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran
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To: Thomas M. who wrote (11842)7/27/2006 7:17:02 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 22250
 

Lebanon - we weren't invovled, except indirectly in that we armed and politically supported the aggressor (Israel).

You can argue that Israel escalated things but it had been attacked before it invaded.

Other than that we WERE involved in a small but more direct way, and we were not the agressor in that situation.

but a strong case can be made that Kuwait was the aggressor

Nonsense.

I notice you list Korea as a case of American aggression. That's more nonsense, unless your talking about the tiny attack we made in the 1800s and even than its a stretch. The Korean War was one of the simplest and most obvious cases of aggression in history. Aggression by the North Koreans.

Nicaragua was supporting rebellions in other countries before we turned the tables on them. Or are you talking about Walker in the 1800s?

In the Vietnam War the north was attacking the south, and using Laos and Cambodia to do it.

Japan attacked the US by surprise to bring us in to WWII.

In El Salvador we support the government against a rebellion. You might try to argue it was a bad idea, but even if you think that it was not aggression.

Most of the other examples are very old, and/or tiny, and/or more complex than the US simply being the aggressor. Some small intervention in the 1800s is hardly a sign that the US is almost universally an aggressor.
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