Laika:
MP, your original claim that Jeff was responding to was that the US had started more wars in the last 100 years than nearly all other nations combined. You have now backtracked on this, admitted that you exaggerated and are now claiming the US started more wars than any other nation which is a different argument. You can't call Jeff an idiot for assuming you meant what you originally wrote!
mP:
firstly he asked for evidence which i provided in full as a list with all those involved. I quite clearly stopped after a dozen or so. I never claimed there were not more. It was quite clear from what was being said i was referring to wars not civil wars. It does not make any sense to atempt a statement like mine and also apply civil wars to the total because by definition a foriegn power cannot be involved in a civil war. Civil wars are again internal conflicts.
We can revisit the list again if you wish and tally all the figures. Jeff reference was to a site that includes a single sentence with the figure 250. I think i can confidently say there has not been 250 wars. If we include civil perhaps, but wars between nations, that figure is not likely. As always show links.