This is an excerpt from an article written by one of my friends at NewsVine.

As observed by writer Gar Smith in the environmental magazine The Edge , in the U.S.’s “230 years of existence, there have been only 31 years in which US troops were not actively engaged in significant armed adventures on foreign shores…The arithmetic is daunting. Over the long course of US history, fewer than 14% of America’s days have been marked by peace. The defining characteristic of our nation’s foreign policy for 86% of our existence would appear to be a bellicose penchant for military intervention.”

For the full article, click here.

For a few good reads that take this topic into its depths, I recommend the following (which I have read):

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