Photo: Naval Airpower

[Bigmack]

41. Anybody look at our military scorecard..?

Korea... tie. Miscellaneous Latin American clusterfucks.... dead losses. Vietnam... loss. Fuckup of the Iran rescue... loss. Panama... victory! Lebanon... loss. Shooting down of Iranian civilian airliner... loss. Grenada.... glorious victory! (kinda) Desert Storm... victory! (kinda) Iraq... loss. Afghanistan... loss.

So... we have sort of won a couple of small wars with countries that barely have an army.

Meanwhile, we have spent about $33 Trillion on "defense" since 1945.

Holy Shit!

So... Iraq, a country without a military ... and Afghanistan, a country literally without a country.... these two have cost us about $3 Trillion and killed about 6500 US troops and wounded about 40,000 others.

And then there's the dead Iraqi, Afghan, and Pakistan civilians.

In the current clusterfucks, the US has sent hundreds of thousands of troops, and equal number of "contractors", total control of the air, unlimited supplies, the most modern weapons and equipment. The Taliban never numbered more than 25,000... and Al Qaeda never had more than a couple of hundred in either country.

My evaluation: It ain't working. Our expensive military ain't working.

19 guys with box cutters hit us harder than anybody since Pearl Harbor.

Our military is huge, powerful, and amazingly inefficient at its job.

We need to try something else.

Maybe give up the idea of an American Empire.