While reading the Arundhati Roy “The Algebra of Infinite Justice” I came across a list of countries that the United States has bombed and/or invaded since WWII. The list is frighteningly long. Here are a few examples (the dates denote the starting time):
China (1948), Korea (1950), Guatemala (1954), Indonesia (1958), Cuba (1959), The Belgian Congo (1964), Peru (1965), Laos (1964), Vietnam (1961), Cambodia (1969), Grenada (1983), Libya (1986), El Salvador (1980), Nicaragua (1980), Panama (1989), Iraq (1991), Somalia (1992), Bosnia (1995), Yugoslavia (1999), Afghanistan (2001) & Iraq (2003).
Looking around online it is easy to find lots more information. For example “Death Tolls for the Man-made Megadeaths of the 20th Century” and Grossmans “Century of Military Interventions“. While looking through the latter it is difficult to maintain a positive attitude that peace is possible. Must a desire for peace be naive?