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To: Alberta's Child
When was the last time the U.S. initiated a “limited retaliatory strike” that didn’t eventually turn into a military occupation?

Many times. Here is only one example. Operation Praying Mantis

179 posted on 09/18/2019 10:36:49 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

First of all, that was 31 YEARS AGO. Secondly, that attack was designed to prevent Iran from defeating Iraq in their decade-long war. How did that work out for us in the long term?


183 posted on 09/18/2019 11:10:07 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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