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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) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2015, @03:41AM
It's amazing how many people -think- they have a handle on history and politics after their attendance at USA's schools^W indoctrination centers.
USA is an AGGRESSOR nation.
It's been that way since before the existence of USA.gov (starting with the extermination of the natives of this hemisphere).
USA.gov's goal is world domination.
If it can achieve that with threats and/or payoffs, that's a good outcome in the view of USA.gov.
If it has to drop tens of millions of tons of bombs on women and children, that's also OK in the view of USA.gov.
...but it is amazing how some folks still hold a belief that USA.gov is altruistic.
-- gewg_
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2015, @04:32AM
USA is an AGGRESSOR nation.
It's been that way since before the existence of USA.gov (starting with the extermination of the natives of this hemisphere).
Newsflash: the same can be said about practically every other developed country.