Why America always fight wars with countries they know they can beat?

Question

If china, russia or north korea cause problems you want to talk about it. Countries that can't defend themselves you want to fight. Panama, Grenada, afghanistand and Iraq. Sounds like a bully to me. I'm talking about after ww2

China took your spy plane stripped it and then gave it back to you. lol
North Korea got wmd not iraq but who you pick a fight with?

Answer 1

cowardice
but we started by relying on the french to save us from the British.
then the only force we could beat was happy native Americans.. well the Seminoles slapped us around.
the Korean peasants stopped us.
then Vietnamese rice farmers handed us our asses.
Afghan shepherds have proven unbeatable
Iraqis are too much for us to chew
cmon, fight a strong country?? you'd have to be crazy....or gassed up on patriotism

Answer 2

We only fight countries that have something we want like oil, lumber, natural gas, minerals,etc. And we only battle countries we know we are likely to defeat. So, yeah, you have some valid points. For example, we don't go into Darfur because they have absolutely nothing we want. If we are so into freedom and democracy and doing the right thing, we would have been over there stopping the genocide. Same thingin Rwanda during the 90's. I think we need to mind our own damn business and stop letting corporations run the country. The only motivating force that many in our government has is greed and hegemony.
Let me say, I absolutely love my country, but I have very high expectations of it. The current leadership of it leaves very much to be desired. We might be able to gain back some of the good will we have lost if we can decent, honest people heading it again.

Answer 3

It is impossible to fight a country we cannot beat. There are none. The only thing that can beat America are liberal Americans. It was liberal Americans in congress that caused us to loose in Vietnam.

You seem to forget that the Soviet Union had quite a different outcome when they fought Afghanistan. You also don't seem to grasp that when we fought in Grenada we were fighting Cuban forces backed by the Soviet Union. We in essence, were daring them to try to stop us. It was the Soviets Union that refused that fight.

Panama was a simple police action to oust Noriega who was in cahoots with drug cartels. We did not fight against the Panamanian army. They were glad to see us.

China has such a large population that in order to defeat them you have to go nuclear. Since we do not hold the people of China responsible for the actions of leaders they do not elect, well, let us hope it never comes to that.

I have no doubt that no country on earth can defeat a united and determined United States of America.

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Answer 4

If you must go to war, it's wise to pick a conflict you know you can win. Since WW2 though, what countries have we beat? North Korea signed an armistice; it's a stalemate. NK still exists, and the war is technically still active, just in cease fire. We didn't "win" that one. We didn't win Vietnam either. There was desert storm, our outlined objectives were completed, but as evidenced by the current war we didn't win that one either (in terms of finalizing it).

Answer 5

I don't agree with the current American occupation of Iraq and the way we have conducted it BUT this is a ridiculous question.

EVERY nation uses diplomacy first to resolve problems with powerful nations instead of war... this is not unique to the United States. Powerful nations also threaten war or military intervention if they don't get their way or if they can't get a resolution. This is the law of the jungle and life isn't fair... ALL powerful nations do this. History has too many examples of this to put in my answer.

World diplomacy and warfare is not like the NFL; we don't have parity in the world, it's just the way of the world.

Answer 6

Pepper Johnson

Answer 7

Go read a history book or watch the news if you don't know why the US had conflicts (don't pretend those were 'wars') with those countries.

The reason the US hasn't attacked China or Russia is because there is no reason too. The US obviously did fight with Korea.

Answer 8

ok- but The US invaded China in 1950(?) under General MacArthur..under a policy of 'rollback' of communist forces...surely that was a battle that they must have known they couldnt win by conventional means. Accordingly Macarthur advocated the use of atomic weapons and escalation and was fired. .. and the war was settled by treaty...(maybe this proves your point)

But with the case of Vietnam, clearly the US thought they were dealing with an enemy (the north vietnamese) that could be beaten by conventional military means..That proved to be false.

And yes, we do seem like a bully lately ..

Answer 9

We would never fight a war with a country that would beat us because there isn't one.China, russia, blah blah blah. Germany was supposed to be the greatest military in years and we dealt with them pretty well.

Answer 10

Because we already screwed up by talking and talking and talking with these countries and gave them time to get nukes.

Now we're stuck with countries that try to fvck us every chance they get.

So, take them out while the military cost is relatively low.

D'uh.

Answer 11

I hate to burst your bubble, but this nation ahsn't won a war since WWII, and Grenada and Panama were not wars. Unless you haven't watched the news in the past few years we aren't winning in Iraq or Afganistan.