Historic, if true and holds. 60s live?. History is a boomerang.

[Bekah]

Our Civil War was so bad we never wanted to go to war again - ever - with anyone.   We lost more men in that war ( 625,000 both sides) than in all the wars from the Revolution to Korea (or possibly later.) 

We stayed out of WWI until Russia removed herself (fought for 18 months out of 4 years).  We stayed out of WWII until we were bombed (fought for 4 years out of 6) .  And when we finally got around to going to war what we really did in both cases was mopped up - Russia had done a lot of the hard stuff.    The French, Russian, English and German casualties (both wars)  put our losses to shame.   Until WWI it was thought that war was a serious detriment to trade - the Civil War had stopped US expansion.   - therefore bad for business.  We were always pro-business.   Then what with the industrialization of war (rather than raw # of troops being the deciding factor)  it was discovered that a few businesses / industries made money in times of war.   We embraced the business of war when it became profitable for the industrialists.  

Bek


On Sep 10, 2013, at 9:36 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> we embrace it because we havent experienced it. never invaded, under occupation, under siege, etc.
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> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> 	Al Jazeera America (@ajam)
>> 9/10/13, 5:31 PM
>> Commentary: Americans usually embrace war. Their rejection of President Obama's Syria plan is historic alj.am/17UwvC2
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