and as in "started" the war - I mean the first to take up arms - and in recent history - let's not go back to the peolponesians or anything weird...
and let's not count 'response' based involvement as "starting" war; ex: the US involvement in the revolutionary war, the civil war, WW2 etc., involvement in Afghanistan as a response to 9-11 etc.
2006-08-16 06:31:49 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
the U.S. Revolutionary war was a "response-based" war in terms of the U.S.' involvement - the U.S. was in a defensive posture as the brits were the agressors
this war is a perfect example of "starting war results in failure" : the brits lost
2006-08-16 06:44:04 · update #1
Captian Morgan attacks Panama
In January 1670, Morgan set out after the largest venture of his career, to plunder the gold of Panama. Answering his call, 2000 buccaneers on 36 ships assembled to prepare for an attack on Panama. Once Morgan took over Fort San Lorenzo, he led his crew on a rough 16-day journey through dense almost impassable Jungle. The Spaniards were prepared for Morgan, and six hundred cavalry swooped down on the pirates. Thousands of muskets fired; both sides took their loses, but the pirates held their ground. A stampede of 2,000 Spanish bulls did not deter the pirates, and the Spanish finally fled in retreat. The city belonged to the buccaneers, and yielded 100,000 English Pounds. Unfortunately, at that time, England was no longer at war with Spain. Morgan was recalled to England and thrown into the dungeons to stand trial as a pirate. However, King Charles II, learning about Morgan’s great deeds, knighted him instead in 1673, making him lieutenant governor of Jamaica. Morgan was ordered to rid the seas from all buccaneers.
Morgan had done well in executing the Kings orders. When he died in 1688 there were almost no buccaneers left.
Is there a little Captian Morgan in you!
2006-08-16 06:41:47 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You can't say that because the US is the one that declared war on Afghanistan, we DID start that war.
Some conspiracy theorists say that Al queda is a myth. There never were any terrorists and it was all an inside job conducted by the US government. There is just as much evidence pointed at that as there is for the existance of actually terrorist attacks.
Not to mention that being a bunch of imperialists, overthrowing the government where there were no weapons of mass destruction found, and essencially kidnapping their leader had nothing to do with 9-11 since this is the war on terror, not the war on Sadam. So I say the US started this war, virtually unprovoked.
2006-08-16 13:41:20 · answer #2 · answered by mwells0629 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Judging by the structure and phrasing of your question it seems that you are not a supporter in our current war on terrorism. It seems that you are challenging those who do support the cause to engage in a logical conversation yet you set illogical parameters on your question. Could this be the case?
We were the first to take up arms in the American Revolution by the way. The British invaded to show strength. History shows they never fired the first shot.
Therefore the Americans ended up extremely well after the American Revolution. Wouldn't you say?
2006-08-16 13:44:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about the Revolutionary War? We started that war to get our independence from Britian, and we are no longer under the rule of British.
I think that is a good thing.
2006-08-16 13:37:26 · answer #4 · answered by mthtchr05 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wars do not end well for anyone...winner or loser.....so, what you are saying, is that we have started every war? Wars are generally started with a response from an aggressor, like ours today has.....you take away the response, then there is no wars at all
2006-08-16 13:38:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Cuban Revolution. Long Live Fidel and Raoul Castro.
Montcalm and Wolf on the Plan Abraham ...Once we lost the English men left and we kept our language and gut to create Canada Best country in North America.
2006-08-16 13:41:00 · answer #6 · answered by JD 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any war where the person that starts the war ends as the winner.
2006-08-16 13:36:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Opium War
Mexican-American War
Spanish-American War
Irish War of Independence
Invasion of Grenada
Invasion of Panama
And those are the ones I can only think off the top of my head. Sorry, your argument doesn't hold up.
2006-08-16 14:03:28 · answer #8 · answered by zippychippy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one admits to starting a war
2006-08-16 13:37:28 · answer #9 · answered by campojoe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Japan now has a better newer industrial plants than the US since we bombed them in WWII. Plus they don't have thought crimes anymore either.
2006-08-16 13:40:00 · answer #10 · answered by animalmother 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋