Feds Threatened to Fine Yahoo $250K Daily for Not Complying with NSA's PRISM

Re:Feds Threatened to Fine Yahoo $250K Daily for Not Complyi... by dragonwriter on Friday September 12, 2014 @02:30AM (#8306829)

> The US was not involved in armed conflict from 1920 (end of involvement in the Russian Civil War) to 1941

Except (among others):

1) The US intervention in the insurgency in Cuba (the "Sugar Intervention") which ran from 1917-1922.

2) The US intervention in China from about 1922-1927.

3) The use of the US military to clear the protesting "Bonus Army" of US veterans in Washington D.C. in 1932.

There may be 21 years without armed conflict by the US in its history, but they aren't 21 years in a row.

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Re:Feds Threatened to Fine Yahoo $250K Daily for Not Complyi... by GabrielF00 on Friday September 12, 2014 @09:23AM (#8307855)

I think you're stretching the term "armed conflict" beyond any reasonable usage. Would you consider Indonesia to be engaged in "armed conflict" in Lebanon because they contribute troops to UN peacekeeping there (UNIFIL)?

The original commenter is trying to compare the number of years the US was involved in military conflicts vs. Europe. If you're going to include events as obscure as the sugar intervention (of which I found very little mention in books about Cuban history and US/Caribbean relations) then I doubt the comparison would be very meaningful.

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Re:Feds Threatened to Fine Yahoo $250K Daily for Not Complyi... by dragonwriter on Friday September 12, 2014 @09:40AM (#8307937)

UNIFIL isn't an intervention as (like in China where the intervention was to protect US, etc., imperial interest in Shanghai from groups directly targeting them) or on behalf of (as in Cuba, where the intervention was directly on behalf of the government against rebels) a principal belligerent, so I think the attempted analogy fails.

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