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Re: Saw this comment tree on a video made me chuckle. (No offence intended)
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2013, 06:01:54 AM »

Erm offense not taken, but I am pretty sure we weren't at war with Russia. Cold war doesn't count. Also pretty sure Korea was a policing action. But America has been getting into a lot of unwinnable situations lately.
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Re: Saw this comment tree on a video made me chuckle. (No offence intended)
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2013, 06:22:50 AM »

i don't remember that U.S. lost in Iraq + they won a whole bunch of war/conflicts

PS: link to that video pls ^^
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Re: Saw this comment tree on a video made me chuckle. (No offence intended)
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2013, 06:26:28 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heFqwofgELA

Just follow the "and you" ones
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Re: Saw this comment tree on a video made me chuckle. (No offence intended)
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2013, 06:46:04 AM »

a great man once said a war is never won, it is only loss
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Re: Saw this comment tree on a video made me chuckle. (No offence intended)
« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2013, 06:52:54 AM »

a great man once said a war is never won, it is only loss
COMMON !! i was drunk and i didn't know what i was saying  :-\
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Re: Saw this comment tree on a video made me chuckle. (No offence intended)
« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2013, 07:00:21 AM »

Erm offense not taken, but I am pretty sure we weren't at war with Russia. Cold war doesn't count. Also pretty sure Korea was a policing action. But America has been getting into a lot of unwinnable situations lately.
1918 ~ 1920, US sent soldiers to help the White Army against Bolsheviks and to generally look out for national interest in Russia.
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Re: Saw this comment tree on a video made me chuckle. (No offence intended)
« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2013, 12:28:11 PM »

Yeahhhhh! Screw America!!!!!!!

The Fedayeen sure did win Iraq!
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Re: Saw this comment tree on a video made me chuckle. (No offence intended)
« Reply #8 on: January 25, 2013, 12:34:09 PM »

Just posting here because it has the potential to get out of hand quickly, and to let you all know I've got an eye on it. Nothing wrong with the discussion per se, but please continue to keep it civil.
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Re: Saw this comment tree on a video made me chuckle. (No offence intended)
« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2013, 12:40:31 PM »

It is pretty incendiary. I'm feeling a little incensed. Not a lot, but a little. There's nothing objectively incorrect about it, but the intent of the entire thing is annoying.

No country is immune to overreach or defeat, but to feel the need to aggressively rebuke the foolish claim that any country is, is itself an exercise in preening smugness.
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Re: Saw this comment tree on a video made me chuckle. (No offence intended)
« Reply #10 on: January 25, 2013, 12:46:10 PM »

I think the comments are more to shut up those overly arrogant types (You know, the "'murica, *** yeah!" stereotype). Any offence intended is to those people I had mentioned before, while the more reasonable of folks can have a good chuckle about it
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Re: Saw this comment tree on a video made me chuckle. (No offence intended)
« Reply #11 on: January 25, 2013, 02:39:49 PM »

Any conventional war the US enters (e.g. WWII), the US will be pretty effective.  Anything else though, and they start to fail in certain areas.

And as a side note, the last war the US ''won'' was the Gulf War, I think sometime in the 1980s?  Been a while since I studied modern conflicts.
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Re: Saw this comment tree on a video made me chuckle. (No offence intended)
« Reply #12 on: January 25, 2013, 03:00:28 PM »

Any conventional war the US enters (e.g. WWII), the US will be pretty effective.
WWII is definitely debatable - the Ruskies I tell ye.
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Re: Saw this comment tree on a video made me chuckle. (No offence intended)
« Reply #13 on: January 25, 2013, 03:02:48 PM »

Dunno whatcya talkin' 'bout. Teh 'mericans nevah entered war with dem ruskies.
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Re: Saw this comment tree on a video made me chuckle. (No offence intended)
« Reply #14 on: January 25, 2013, 03:03:19 PM »

Dunno whatcya talkin' 'bout. Teh 'mericans nevah entered war with dem ruskies.
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