Why do USA try to prove their greatness by fighting in other countries? When they keep losing...?

Question

Ok i know US government hate communists, but that doesnt mean they should go marching into other countries conflict and fight to prove they are great when all they do is get their **** kicked...look back to Vietnam...USA marched in, US public werent botherd, but when they knew they couldnt win and they werent winning the US public realised they werent going to win, exactly the same in Iraq now! USA government should stop trying to solve other countires conflicts and sort out their own on home soil. Gangs murders etc. Let other countires sort it out themselves. Their problem...not anyone elses.

Ok we know US army is the biggest in the world, that USA is one of the richest countries in the world. That it is big economacially, but US government needs a brain...someone who would care about their own country and their own people. Aswell as help out in Africa etc. but without taking an army in! UK army is much smarter than US...but US is bigger so they dont care. Tell me your views...

Answer 1

pick up a history book.

Answer 2

Oh, man. It seems that anyone without at least a high school level knowledge of history posts something on here. Who cares which country people think is better. We're all on the same side fighting for the same cause. What does it matter, Tony Blair has his hands in the pie too, and he's just as unpopular as Bush is, as a matter of fact, maybe you can tell me when Blair is out the door?? I'm all for allies and friends, but hell, even friends these days seem out to cut each others throats. Sorry you feel this way about us, but maybe you should remember a little piece of history from your side of the pond...... WW II. If I remember correctly, Britain was the last major "free" country" after Hitler and the German Army swept into Poland, France, Spain, Austria. Had the U.S. and other countries not stepped in after being asked for help by your government during this period, It is obvious that Britain would have fallen. Just read up on your history a little better before you start jumping into something and saying that someone is 'smarter' than the other. I suggest that you read more, and discover that Napoleon, Alexander the Great, and many others won many wars, but lost a few also, at great costs.

I'm not going to even waste my time trying to figure out which country you are really from, so use this as a good example and learn from it.

Answer 3

Mate, I have rarely seen anyone who has so many ideas jumbled in such an ***-upwards manner.
Ok- help Africa without using an army? fine- but how? take Sudan. They get their money out of oil exports, buy their guns from China and Russia (which guarantees no UN approved sanctions) and use the guns to murder the people who actually live on the oil rich territories. You are going to help them? HOW? By writing editorials in the New York Times?

A black muslim slave costs 200 $ in Chartoum, Sudan. On a perfectly legal market in the middle of the city. try helping him without using force. You will pay the cash? excellent- the slave trader is richer, and can finance a new slave capturing expedition.

You want the US out of everyone else's countries? fine. Except Russia and china and a dozen other countries and organisations do not think as you do. And they actively work, by hook and crook, on capturing and exploiting other people’s countries for themselves. And you just might wake up one day, living in a city where a new slave market is opening.

Answer 4

Your basically saying:The strength of the U.S military is overrated - I`m not opposing you on this point. Fact is that Iraq was choosen as a suitable country to invade. If a measly country like Iraq is causing the U.S problem...(The insurgents causing problem in Iraq now are only using improvised weapons) Then what will happen when the U.S is facing a stronger opponent??

Answer 5

Sometimes it's not about winning and losing. It's about fighting the good fight. Even if there was no reason to go to Iraq, our president and our congress believed there was.

Where were you then?

Sure, now we're not in the best situation, but we've got to stay and make the most of it. The Iraqis must self-govern, no doubt about that, but we can't say 'oops' and leave!

And our country has problems, but so does yours (and yours isn't England... How did I know you were a non-native English speaker? a little grammar lesson here:

Groups are singular in English. "The US public WASN'T bothered."

Answer 6

I don't think the United States is trying to "prove" anything. We only got involved in situations when we were needed for help, and to protect ourselves and other people. We didn't just barge-in somewhere and take over. I think you have the wrong attitude. We are suppose to be One Nation Under God and try to give assisstance and help others; not "let them sort it out themselves."

Answer 7

Pick up a World History book and also a World War II
book and learn something.

Answer 8

actually we could win, we could level every major city, scorch the earth from east to west.

We could ahve done that in Vietnam and could do it in Iraq.

But our army has been stoped by new "rules of war" and even now it is worst than in Vietnam.

In WWII for example, we leveled cities, we bombed without worry of who was getting bombed, if you were in Germany you were the bad guys, there were no real civialians and if there were some considered that no one cared really. We only wanted to win and defeat an enemy.

So it is not that we can't win, the government will not let us win

Answer 9

yes, we lost all of these wars.... like vietnam.. oh wait, we didn't lose, we left. and somalia... oh wait, we wussed out of that....

Too bad the problem isn't overseas, it's here. We pander too much to the pansies that cry out against war and have lost our ability to crush anyone.

The mightiest military machine in the world gets bossed around by a hippie. That's a shame.

Answer 10

U say the UK army is SMARTER than the US army, did u know the UK army is in Iraq now?

Answer 11

The US could annihilate anyone and everything. We choose not too. We tend to fight by the rules unlike some other countries.

I am sorry, not to be rude but you are kind of a dork and should be embarrassed to post that question. You obviously have no idea what you are talking about.