Piketty: Germany Has Never Paid Its Debts

[crazy canuck]

Aw, we won Gulf War I.

Coalition war.  Doesn't count.

[Valmy]

Heh. Tough talk from a country that, despite having complete material superiority, hasn't managed to win a war in two generations.

Well technically speaking we haven't declared war since 1941

[Valmy]

Aw, we won Gulf War I.

Coalition war.  Doesn't count.

Then Vietnam was a loss by SEATO and cannot fall at our feet

[Ideologue]

B-52s cannot fail, they can only be failed.

[Razgovory]

Aw, we won Gulf War I.

Coalition war.  Doesn't count.

We beat the shit out of Grenada.

[crazy canuck]

Aw, we won Gulf War I.

Coalition war.  Doesn't count.

Then Vietnam was a loss by SEATO and cannot fall at our feet

I should have qualified my comment that GWI was a war with broad based international support.

[crazy canuck]

Aw, we won Gulf War I.

Coalition war.  Doesn't count.

We beat the shit out of Grenada.

USA! USA! 

[Valmy]

Aw, we won Gulf War I.

Coalition war.  Doesn't count.

Then Vietnam was a loss by SEATO and cannot fall at our feet

I should have qualified my comment that GWI was a war with broad based international support.

And that was only because of our leadership and considerable effort. If it was not for us nobody would have done shit.

[Valmy]

USA! USA! 

And Panama. So we suck at long guerrilla wars of occupation. Well who doesn't?

[Syt]

Aw, we won Gulf War I.

Coalition war.  Doesn't count.

Then Vietnam was a loss by SEATO and cannot fall at our feet

I should have qualified my comment that GWI was a war with broad based international support.

And that was only because of our leadership and considerable effort. If it was not for us nobody would have done shit.

It was also at a time when Russia was in no position to be a dick about the whole thing.

[crazy canuck]

Aw, we won Gulf War I.

Coalition war.  Doesn't count.

Then Vietnam was a loss by SEATO and cannot fall at our feet

I should have qualified my comment that GWI was a war with broad based international support.

And that was only because of our leadership and considerable effort. If it was not for us nobody would have done shit.

Actually, if it had not been for a well funded and very well orchestrated public relations blitz by the Kuwait elite (particularly within the US) nobody would have done anything. 

[frunk]

Actually, if it had not been for a well funded and very well orchestrated public relations blitz by the Kuwait elite (particularly within the US) nobody would have done anything. 

Actually, if Iraq wouldn't have invaded nobody would have done anything.

[crazy canuck]

USA! USA! 

And Panama. So we suck at long guerrilla wars of occupation. Well who doesn't?

Was Panama a war?  More of a snatch and grab wasn't it?

[Valmy]

Was Panama a war?  More of a snatch and grab wasn't it?

Most of our wars these days start out that way. That one just stuck.

'Don't worry this will be just a quick little operation using a few advisors/special forces/airstrikes and...OMG WTF'

[Valmy]

Actually, if it had not been for a well funded and very well orchestrated public relations blitz by the Kuwait elite (particularly within the US) nobody would have done anything. 

Bullshit. Saddam was told before the invasion that we would "protect our friends".