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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Give us a list of them so we can choose.

[–] DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

There's Libya, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen, & Somalia. Iraq and Afghanistan are carryovers from Bush, so those would be cheating.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Great choice. An African American turning one of the wealthiest nations in Africa into a failed state with open slave trade markets is quite the achievement. I, myself, and more fond of the Syrian war, where the US, the biggest military in the history of the world, literally ran out of bombs, cause it dropped so many on one nation, whose oil fields are currently controlled by America. The bombing of Yemen is also great! We successfully bombed not just weddings, but also school busses full of children, and even made Jim Carrey into a world famous artists of his drawing of the incident. And also where Obama successfully took out a family member of a known terrorist, his 16 year old American son.