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Kasz216 on 03 October 2012
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Mr Khan said:
homer said:
Seems like most of those were more of conflicts than wars imo.(our involvement at least) I mean, did Obama really "start" or get us really involved in Libya Civil War? Did we even have boots on the ground? Most of those also seemed to be Indian wars which were just pitiful.(for the Indians)

Broadly defines "war." Forgot to add that

There's a bit of subjectivity in attempting to define anything from history, especially in classing events.

"Start" here is to be taken as "President whom initiated or escalated American involvement." Obviously Woodrow Wilson didn't start World War I (that one metal band did :P), but he did as far as America is concerned.


Depending on how broadly you want to define it you could actually put Kony under Bush instead of Obama.  Or both.


Bush did send a bunch of aid, military advisors and equipment to the Ugandans to fight Kony.  Which is partially why Kony was powerless by the time the Kony videos came out.   The Bush intervention forced Kony to pull out of Uganda.

Obama later sent "armed advisors" to the remaining areas he's been hiding. 

Really it's funny, had the presidential candidate in 08 been ANY of the candidates except Obama I bet Africa would of been pulling heavily for McCain.