[cmccuist]

You really don't want to F with the US. The US has a long memory and eventually we'll hurt you.

We have destroyed Cuba's economy via the embargo that we have remorselessly maintained against the Castro regime, for decades;

We wore down the Soviet Empire until it finally collapsed - a fifty-year endeavor;

Saddam Hussein pissed us off in 1991, and well over a decade later found himself on the gallows

The North Korean regime remains a basket case, partly for the same reasons as Cuba above. Taiwain remains free and secure only because we refuse to acknowledge China's claim to rule there.

For a more ancient example, the Ku Klux Klan was able to reform itself several decades after initially being smashed by US Grant in the 1870's - only to be smashed again several decades later, this time forever. Yes I know they still exist, but only as a despised and pathetic rump of the monstrous force they once were. And they typically get more protesters at their marches than members.

Our enemies perceive us as weak because we have retreated from places like Vietnam, Lebanon, Somalia. It may well be that in these cases we retreated in error.

But look at those countries now! Lebanon may never be the same. And we will continue to make sure them suffer, either actively or passively.

Somalia is a hell hole of biblical proportions. Hope killing 17 US servicemen and dragging them through the street was worth it. Starvation and death for your entire population makes Black Hawk down seem like a hollow victory.

Bottom line, the US doesn't forget. And you're gonna pay one day.