Not sure how you come up with that. Since 1979 when the Islamic Republic got started, Iran has probably killed more people than the USA. This is because the Iran/Iraq war was particularly bloody. Neither country is Switzerland, but then neither is anywhere close to Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia or Communist China in terms of the deaths, pain and suffering they caused. Originally Posted by TinyOk maybe you didn't listen to retired General Wesley Clark admit about the US government's "7 Country hit list". I've been to Somalia in 1993. A quagmire of tribal warfare. No threat to the US.
I've been to Afghanistan and Iraq twice each. No threat to the US.
But me and my battle buddies pounded the crap out of these countries.
What people don't know about Afghanistan is the trillion dollar Lithium vane and the mineral rich mountains there.
What everbody does know about is one of the largest untapped oilfields (Rumallah oilfield) in Iraq.
Somalia's strategic location to the Red Sea and the Suez Canal as it's located on the Horn of Africa with it's major shipping lanes.
Again CNN posted General Clark's remarks about the 7 country hit list. The companies in the US are some of the biggest arms dealers on the planet, which results in more deaths than any one man can imagine. Russia and China are also just as big in arms sales.
I tell you what it's all about, he who controls the natural resources and money everywhere controls the world.
I believe in the people of the US but certainly not my government who has failed me time after time after i retired from the Army with 22 years of service.
I'll let people know "If you haven't been to any of those countries and had to deal with the people of those countries face to face, don't say shit to me." In order for you to know you have to go.
Oh and for those of you who didn't know a fact out of Somalia--Mohammed Farrah Aidid's son served in the USMC. Aidid was an enemy of ours over there. He died of wounds. Once his son finished his obligation to the USMC, he went back to Somalia to try and unite the broken government.