America is the fortunate/spoiled nation that's never had to truly risk the home front before
Say what? Fortunate? We made this country by sweat and blood. And before someone says "poor Indians" remember that all land is taken by force in the long run. Wherever you live your ancestors likely took it from someone else unless you have moved to another part of the world where someone else took that land from someone else. It's the way of the world. "Give peace a chance" was a song by a drugged out hippie with dreams of Utopia. It just has never been that way.
Along the way of taking/making our nation we fought Indians, the French, and the Spanish. I do believe they threatened our existence on the home front. You are mistaking our ability to overcome our enemies with luck. Big mistake. We won because we were stronger and smarter than those we fought.
Then there was that little country we call Japan. They very much threatened the west coast of the US and had plans of invading but of course they were thwarted handily I might add and against the odds. We outsmarted them at Midway and from there it was American might that kept them off our doorstep. It's not like they didn't want to come here.
And of course there's Mexico which has tried to reconquer much of the southwest since Pancho Villa. And there was a much stronger movement of Reconquista in the 1930's where radio stations in the midwest preached a Mexican uprising to take back what they think we stole. BTW we didn't steal it. They attacked us. We thumped their gourds and in those days that meant paying off the debt you incurred by attacking a nation with territory. They'll give you all sorts of excuses about how mighty Santa Anna was called back to deal with a revolution just at the point he had the Americans beaten. Horse hockey. They lost period.
Oh yeah. Let's not forget the Mexicans were allies of the Nazis in WWII. The Germans tried very hard to get them to attack us from the south. They tried to cash in on all that Reconquista thinking of the 1930's (although it wasn't called that at the time it was the same idea - rejection of the Treaty of Guadaulpe Hildalgo).
This lucky/spoiled stuff doesn't float friend. You mistake our ability to overcome with luck and you have no idea how far from spoiled we were at times in this country. Let's not even mention the Civil War where the whole country east of the Mississipi (and west of it to an extent) was torn apart. And there's the War of 1812 when Washington DC was invaded.
And then there's the whole Cold War thing. Yeah we never had to face any threat to our home country. Except maybe that whole nuclear annihilation threat. Maybe you remember the Cuban Missile Crisis. I sure as heck do. We were on the front lines of the biggest threat to humanity in history friend. I sat on a school bus waiting for the word that the missiles were on their way so we could dash home and die with our parents. Don't mistake our strength and our resolve for luck and don't mistake our history for what we are portrayed as being on tv. This nation is still VERY strong. Ask Saddam. Remember we actually conquered Afghanistan even if Obozo gave it back. No country in history did that except us and it wasn't that long ago. Spoiled? I don't think so. Were you here after 9/11? Because you would have seen the true face of Americans if you had. When the time comes we will be ready. Plenty of countries have thought we were weak and spoiled in the past. Ask the Japanese how that worked out for them. We aren't that much different now despite what you hear on tv.
