War Statistics

[Wake-up!]

This is paraphrased from Laurence Vance, writing at lewrockwell.com:

-- Since WW2, the world has had 248 armed conflicts. The United States started 201 of them.

-- These US-started armed attacks have killed roughly 30 million people, most of them innocent children, the
     elderly, and ordinary working, civilian women and men.

-- The United States has war-murdered more than the Nazis.


Let me add:
-- Not one of those armed conflicts had a Congressional Declaration of War. In that sense, those armed conflicts
     were conducted illegally, without approval of the people and the States through their representatives.

-- Did ANY of those armed conflicts serve to protect these 50 States and their citizens? How?

-- How many billions of dollars were appropriated (coerced) from individuals and businesses to pay for those armed
     conflicts?
     -- If you are a Conservative, how much of those billions would be better spent, or saved, by American families
        and businesses?
     -- If you are a Liberal, how much of those billions would be better spent domestically by federal and state
        governments on social and educational programs, and entitlement programs for the underprivileged?

-- Does anyone feel this country, or the world, is better off having 248 armed conflicts in seventy-one years?

-- Does anyone think the trend of armed conflict can be changed? How?