Americans never fought a decent foe?

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Don't you think that? NEVER.... except British at the time of the Revolution. Well, we fought Nazi just when it was obvious Nazi is to fail to Red Army.... We never won WWII. Soviets did it, we just help them a bit! We fought peasants in Vietnam and.... we lose! We fought in Korea and we lose again! Commies are still there....We fought in 1812 and we lose that war to Britain. Oh, Japan... It signed capitulation only after Stalin unleashed his troops... So we lose even that to Commies! War in the Gulf? Yeah, we somewhat won... but is it our land? War in Afghanistan we lose again since it nothing changed there. Serbia and Bosnia.... how nice it is to bomb someone from the distance making the deal with the Russians so that they don't send Serbs rockets to fight us... so yeah, we won that ....."attack on them"....and at last Iraq..... How long we were going to stay there? a year? Overall, why did we attack it? So we are losing there again..... We won somewhere of course

Answer 1

sure whatever you say

Answer 2

You couldn't be more wrong. The Soviets did make a life saving stand at Stalingrad, but to say they were the defeat of the Nazis, is well, absolutely wrong. And remember WWII wasn't just about the Nazis. We were in N. Africa, Italy, and don't forget Asia.
Vietnam, where do I start. Look up and find where the US lost ANY battles in Vietnam. They didn't. They routinely routed the "peasants" as you call them. The problem was political. And we not only faced N. Vietnam, but the Viet Cong, and Viet Minh. The North lost in excess of 1 million people in the conflict. And by the end of the war, Hanoi was TOTALLY defenseless. We could have used hang gliders to destroy the capital. But international pressure, from all people, the French, prevented us from exacting a victory.
The Korean war was at worst, considered a draw. Our objective was met. Repel the North from the South. As far as I know, South Korea is still a free nation.
It is apparent that you are either a "hater" or totally clueless on history.
And I might add. We invaded Iraq--twice. Both times were easy victories against the number 5 standing army in the world. The first ground war lasting 100 hours. The second a Sunday drive into Baghdad. The situation there now is NOT part of the "battle". This is an insurgency, where are hands are tied. We aren't able to bomb, or attack a city where the insurgents are hiding. IF it were a "war" we not only would be able to that, we surely would.
And the violence that continues there today is mostly directed at each other. Shiites vs. Sunnis. Some US soldiers are killed or wounded by roadside bombs, but this is more of a criminal activity rather than "War".
AND THE SOVIET UNION DECLARED WAR ON JAPAN--AFTER WE DROPPED WEAPONS ON NAGASAKI AND HIROSHIMA. You really should get your facts straight. All you said were complete lies and untruths. Are you a writer for the DNC? Schmuck.

Answer 3

Son you make a good argument for School Vouchers. The German were whipping the Russians if we had not lent them material and open the second front like Stalin begged they and Europe would have been finished. As to the Japanese, we pushed them back to their mainland and would have taken it, but the A-bomb. By the way, Russia didn’t even enter the war against Japan until August 1945. We did not have that big of a combat role in World War I but we certainly were not slouches. I would argue we did not lose Viet Nam but fight peasants, hardly. We fought Jane Fonda, China, Russia, the North Vietnamese and these annoying VC peasants as you called them. We did all right in the Mexican and Spanish American Wars. We did GREAT in Korea until the Chinese intervened. We were not supposed to fight a war with Serbia and Bosnia. I will agree and not because of Bush because the Democratic have done it too, we went against Iraqi to take the Americans minds off problems the administration could not resolve. Besides war always improves the economy. I also agree we will lose both Iraqi and Afghanistan you would think supposedly smart people would remember that old saying “History always repeats itself”. How many countries have tried unsuccessfully to capture Afghanistan? But to the rest I suggest you go back and read so more! God Bless you and the Southern People” (Oh, and the War of Northern Aggression).

Answer 4

Oh my word! What a confused and misinformed understanding of history you have.

Let's see now. You have conceded that we fought the Britsh in the Revolution, which certainly was a great power at the time. However, oddly enough, that one instance that you concede that we fought and defeated a major opponent was actually only made possible with significant help from the French, including a timely French naval blockade that prevented Cornwallis from evacuating from Yorktown and thereby forcing his surrender.

However, in the War of 1812 we again took on the British and defeated a major assault on New Orleans in 1815 (admittedly a few weeks after the war was techically over, but neither side knew a peace had been signed in Paris ending the war when the battle was fought.)

We can dispense with the Mexican-American War I suppose, as Mexico was not a great power by any stretch, but then, neither were we. Still, we won that one decisively.

The Civil War I suppose one cannot count, as we were essentially fighting ourselves. Still the Union and the Confederacy put hundreds of thousands of men in the field and ultimately the Union, which was the U.S., won.

The Spanish American War was by no means a foregone conclusion. Spain at the time was a major naval power and indeed when the American Pacific Fleet sailed toward the Phillipines to engage the Spanish, a British naval commander remarked--"There go the Americans. Pity we will never see them again." In fact, the U.S. fleet routed the Spanish fleet and the U.S. became a naval power to be reckoned with after that.

WWI? Well, we came in late of course, but there is little doubt that the million soldiers we put on the front broke the German's defensive back. You may recall that Germany had already defeated Russia in that one and was shipping hundreds of thousands of troops west to reinforce the trench lines and open a fresh offensive. It buckled under U.S. and Allied pressure--a feat the Allies alone had been unable to bring about in four years on their own.

But it is WWII that you had the most wrong. First of all, how long do you think the British would have survived alone on the Western Front without major U.S. support? Moreover, while one can certainly credit Russia with fighting the Germans successfully, it is almost certain they would have lost that fight without U.S. war materials. At the start of the German invasion they did not even have a rifle for each man in the field, let alone ammunition, planes, trucks, etc. U.S. military production made them able to withstand the German advance and eventually turn the tide.

The Normandy invasion, the reconquest of northern Africa, the Italian invasion, the ships to defeat the German U-Boat war--credit the United States.

As to Japan not surrendering until Russian troops attacked--my God man, where to get this stuff? Russia declared war on Japan the day we dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. For four years we drove the mighty Japanese navy back across the Pacific. While Germany lost its submarine war in the Atlantic, we won ours in the Pacific and were strangling Japan as we reigned death upon all of her major cities. We defeated Japan virtually single handed.

Back in Europe, U.S. airpower made possible round the clock bombing. U.S. ship production and our 1,000 ship navy controlled the Atlantic and insured supplies and men sufficient to land on D-Day were in place. Yes the Brits and the Canadians were there and played a major role, but don't think it would have even been possible to invade fortress Europe without the U.S. And I would note further that the U.S. led forces drove Germany out of France and back to defeat in Germany in less than a year--something the Russians had struggled with much longer.

Lost in Korea? We drove the North Koreans and the Chinese (you remember the Chinese, largest land army in the world) out of South Korea without even resorting to our nuclear arsenal.

Vietnam, well technically they signed a peace with us and if you look at the battle record, the U.S. never lost a major engagement there. We bombed N. Vietnam at will, mined its ports at will, and defeated its troops in the field consistently. Did we have the will to stay in for the long haul to defeat an insurgency? No. But our military did not "lose" the war--our politicians gave it away. Besides, it was not a conflict with a major opponent, and you seem to be suggesting that the U.S. has never fought and defeated such an adversary.

Likewise, we beat the crap out of the Taliban in Afghanistan, throttled the Iraqis twice, but neither were major opponents and so so not relate to your premise.

Still, you might want to stop listening to your left-wing defeatist buddies. Make no mistake about it--for the rest of the world knows this surely--the United States is and has been the most powerful country the world has ever seen since 1945.

Answer 5

My grandfather served in the Super 6th - after many months they pushed through Europe paving the way for an allied victory - the loss of life and suffering they endured was staggering - the weather was brutal enough on its own - the Nazis and their allies were a fierce foe, in many instances better equipped and trained -and yet America and her allies prevailed.

Try getting your information from better sources - like the soldiers who were there - instead of whatever communist propaganda they hand out on campus.

Answer 6

Your perception of history is very disturbing.
Just what school did you go too that taught you such garbage??
I guess the landings at Normandy was just another day on the beach for the Americans??
South Korea is a communist Country???

Answer 7

everyone else answered this pretty well - so I won't and you won't have to report me -