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The Washington Post reports
A simple data point offered by a college commencement speaker jumped out at [non-employee Washington Post contributor Philip Bump] before being borne away on the tide of immediacy.
[...]The speaker was ABC journalist Martha Raddatz, and the point is [...]: The graduates have spent half their lives with America at war.
It's a startling idea, but an incorrect one. The percentage is almost certainly much higher than that.
Using somewhat subjective definitions of "at war"--Korea counts but Kosovo doesn't in our analysis, for example--we endeavored to figure out how much of each person's life has been spent with America at war. We used whole years for both the age and the war, so the brief Gulf War is given a full year, and World War II includes 1941. These are estimates.
The page contains a graphic that allows you to see what portion of your lifetime the USA has been formally engaged in hostilities according to your birth year.
Original Submission
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2015, @11:51PM
You're lucky to be here. If it wasn't for the US to keep your ass from getting ethnic cleansed out of existence, and all that other horrific stuff you europeans do to each other when someone isn't making you play nice with others.
(Score: 2) by zugedneb on Tuesday June 23 2015, @12:24AM
I think, the peace, and the coming peace is no thanks to any nation, it is simply thanks to the technological and medical advancements.
Despite some issues inspiring a "gloomy mood", life is becoming pretty comfotable, and hence, the general population is not so keen on war.
But, we are the same people as we were before, and without the comfort, the cleansing would have been cyclic and inevitable.
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax