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War-mongering America
Some of the non-defensive American wars since 1900 are as follows:
- Spanish-American War, 1898-1902
- Philippine-American War, 1899-1901
- Mexico Intervention, 1914-17
- Mexico Intervention again, 1918
- Soviet Union Intervention, 1918
- World War I, 1917-18
- World War II, 1941-45
- Korean War, 1950-53
- Vietnam War, 1964-75
- Iran Hostage Rescue Attempt, 1980
- Grenada Invasion, 1983
- Panama Invasion, 1989
- Gulf War, 1991
- Haiti Invasion, 1994
- Kosovo Intervention, 1999
- Afghan War, 2001
- Iraq War, 2003
Ambiguous wars occurred in our history: 1776 This can be argued, yes; though in 1776 the United States was declared more than actually formed and technically the attack - on the arms cache in Concord, MA in 1775 for example - was made by soldiers of the 'legitimate' government of the day rather than a foreign one. Certainly the Revolutionary War was justified, but it's a little hard to call it an unprovoked foreign attack in the usual sense.
1812 In 1812 the British Royal Navy pirated American MERCHANT shipping to force sailors to join it; a hostile act without question, but it was not on US soil and not part of a war the British Government initiated against the US one. It could (and should) have been handled by the merchant shippers - by arming their vessels, or hiring better-armed ones to accompany convoys. Instead, the US Government took up their cause and turned the incidents into a full war. So it's very questionable whether there was an act of foreign aggression against the USA even in 1812.
1861 The Southern States wanted to secede from the Union, but they were not 'foreign' so the Civil War does not count for this purpose.
1917 There was no unprovoked attack upon America by the German Government. The Feds had been openly assisting the British by supplying armaments, sometimes almost certainly hidden aboard passenger ships like the Lusitania, a British liner sunk in 1915 by a U-boat for that reason - but the war on Germany was initiated and declared in Washington, not Berlin .
1941 Pearl Harbor is by far the best known, alleged 'unprovoked attack' on the USA, on December 7th 1941. In fact, President F D Roosevelt had been striving to get America involved in WW-II for several years, against opposition by a huge majority of public opinion; and he deliberately provoked the Pearl attack by cutting off (in July 1941) supplies of oil and metal to Japan.
So no, Pearl was in no way unprovoked - or even unexpected.
2001 One of the most scandalous aspects of 9/11/2001 is that not on that day or since, has any serious explanation been offered by the US Government as to WHY the Muslim fanatics wrought so much havoc. That failure obscures the key issue of whether or not the attack was provoked, and so makes it hard to answer this question. From other sources, two motives appear likely: (1) the fanatics desire to dominate the Muslim world politically and so impress Muslim opinion by successfully attacking the world's greatest superpower, and (2) they are outraged by its repeated disregard of Muslims over 60 years, and so take revenge. In both of these, it's clear that the USA and the West generally is held in contempt and hatred, because of its unwavering support for the State (not the people, but the political State) of Israel - and hostility to Islam. That being so, it's hard to see the 9/11 attacks as unprovoked; they were provoked systematically, over six decades.
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