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Libya is now a failed state, wracked by civil war and a major jumping-off point for refugees fleeing U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about the murder of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. “ We came, we saw, he died,” bragged then U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the overthrow of Libya’s government, and the Syrian civil war are excused as unfortunate collateral damage in America’s campaign to spread freedom and democracy to the rest of the world? Is that very much different than the way the butcher bills for the U.S. The fact that this holy war would kill hundreds of thousands of the continent’s original owners and sentence the survivors to grinding poverty was irrelevant. In their view, the Army was not fighting for gold in 1866, but was embarked on a moral crusade to civilize the savages, to build a shining “city on a hill,” to be that “exceptional” nation that stands above all others. The time and place was vastly different, but the men who designed the war against Native Americans would be comfortable with the rationale that currently impels U.S. Lee, but rather like General Vo Nguyen Giap a hundred years in the future: an ambush by attackers who quickly vanished, isolated posts overrun, supply wagons looted and burned. Oglala Sioux leader Red Cloud and his savvy lieutenant, Crazy Horse, did not fight like Robert E. The fighting was going badly for an army fresh from the battlefields of the Civil War. was at war with the local tribes – Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho – in an attempt to open a trail into the Montana gold fields. Army’s 18th Infantry Regiment were pursuing some Indians over a rocky ridge. foreign policy currently being fought out in the editorial pages of the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the magazine Foreign Policy, one might consider starting in late December on a bitter cold day in northern Wyoming, where 81 men of the U.S.
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In trying to unravel the debates over U.S. Marge says that they'll let Homer out in the morning.Fans wave flags as a B-2 stealth bomber flies over Charlotte Motor Speedway before the start of a NASCAR race in Concord, N.C. While Homer rushes in there, Marge quickly closes the door, Lisa holds it shut and Maggie puts a lock on it. Homer frantically rushes into the fallout shelter where Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie trap him in. He says that it's World War III and that this is not a test. Bart decides to wake Homer up with a paper megaphone. Bart asks if they beat the clock, and Homer says they were close and that the next drill is in 3 hours. They quickly go into the fallout shelter, and Homer tells them to go back into bed. Homer wakes up his family a third time, and this time he says it's the end of the world. Homer says that once again, they're timing is off, to which they are angry. The rest of the family is annoyed and go slowly down to the fallout shelter. Homer wakes up his family another time once they're sleeping, and says he means it. His family starts shivering because they're cold. Homer says they would be dead meat if it were a real war. Everyone frantically makes it into the bomb shelter in 18 seconds. He tells them that it's World War III and that the bombs are dropping. Homer wakes up everyone in the house while everyone else is asleep. World War III is the 16th Simpsons short and originally aired on The Tracey Ullman Show on November 22, 1987. 2 Credits “ Wake up everybody! It's World War III!” ― Homer Simpson