>>7
You don't ask difficult questions, you ask dumb questions that have allready been historicaly answered. You just don't get the point of history.
The US have failed miserably in prety much every invasion they have tried. Militarily speaking, your army is focused on destroying facilities to weaken your enemies with out actualy fighting. Everytime you've sent soldiers in a foreign country you get fucked in the ass and you usualy hide behind a 'green zone'.
The actual strength the US holds is the economic power. That's how you enslave other countries and that's something you evloved out of your weakness to actualy conquer. War is being carried out in economical terms these days because that's a good way to minimize its effect on public opinion which otherwise could turn the people against the war (a war which is illegal by international law anyway).
The point where your logic goes wrong is that you are thinking in a nationalist way. And that's funny from a non american point of view because americans are hardly a nation. They are rather a 'soup' of people originating from all over the world, a successfull multicultural socienty in most cases. I think this way of thinking is exactly what you need to terminaly fuck up your country. To completely destabilize your economy with another costly war, from which the rich will get richer and the poor will become poorer or eved dead soldiers. It might also be a way to start a new anti-war movement similar to the one at the time of vietnam which, i'm guessing is not exactly what you have in mind.
I live in the other side of the world and honestly, from my perspecive, it would be really nice to see the US shoot itself on the foot like this. But even from the other side of this planet, I can realize that I have nothing against the PEOPLE of the US who are victims of their own corrupt government just like the rest of the world is. There is an anarchist slogan that translates to something like: In the world of the elite, we are all foreigners. Which basically means that no matter where you come from (and whether you think nationalisticaly), you will always be a replacable, expendable pawn. Unless you take that power back that is. Therefore from my perspective, if the american people really want to prosper, they need to take control of their government, beat corruption and take back the money that has been stolen from them by the banks and mega corporations before these institutions deplete all the resources and poison the planet and turn everyone into their minions. Otherwise, by trying to annex neighbouring countries, you actually doing them a mega favour sacrificing american and non-american lives to make richer and more powerfull than they already are.
Hope I've covered your quetstion...