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Iran has not invaded another country, has not used its military to destroy the legal regime of another country. I'll judge Iran more after my visit.
Iran–Iraq War - Wikipedia
Though not the initial aggressor, Iran spent the last six years of the war on the offensive in Iraq. So they did invade another country, even though Iraq started the war. If you want to argue that that doesn't count, then WW1, WW2, and Afghanistan shouldn't count against the USA.
America has been involved in more wars than any other nation
Gonna need some sort of proof for that claim. Considering the USA is one of the youngest countries in the world, it's hard to believe this is the case vs thousands-of-years-old countries in Europe and Asia, especially considering the super-broad interpretation of what a "war" is that the USA is being held to. Is every feudal border dispute in Europe being counted as a war? Is every dynastic civil war in China being counted against it? Every tribal raid in Africa being counted against those nations? I seriously doubt that the USA has been involved in the most wars in history by any reasonable standard.
and spends more on its miliatary than any any other nation, with all that miliatary hardware available I believe conflict is more likely. The miliatary has too big an influence on policy.
This is a reasonable point of debate. It comes up plenty often enough in our American political debates, though both Democrats and Republicans have no desire to change it. Staying a superpower requires money, and no one wants us to be overtaken technologically or operationally by Russia or China.
I'm in complete agreement there. There's no need for us to get our people killed fighting in third world cesspools. We gain nothing from it and we don't improve the stability of the region.And I'm not being indignant, the title of the thread was designed to get attention and it worked. I still think the world would be better if the US and others, involved their miliatary in other people's problems less frequently.
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