[QUOTE=TrainMan;141242]Y From reading all that I am well aware that the period after WWII has been one of the most peaceful time periods ever.[/QUOTE]
There a a few million folks who might say otherwise, if they weren’t dead. About 60 million died in WW2, we are quickly approaching that number since peace broke out with over 50 million not counting those since 2000. But arms sales have been booming.
http://www.cissm.umd.edu/papers/files/deathswarsconflictsjune52006.pdf (table 2, page 73)
It’s time to find some new history books and some old maps. There isn’t enough room here and I don’t have enough time to even provide the number of links it would take but just for a single example, here is what happened in the Middle East since 1945:
We will pay the tab for that shit until we are as poor as Haiti or Zimbabwe.