Peace? What peace? The war never officially ended. Combat hostilities still flair up. Did you miss the part where North Korea shelled South Korea in November of 2010?

This left me scratching my head, actually. After Korea, what conflicts were those where U.S. forces have came into open confrontation with Soviet-doctrine troops? Vietnam was, arguably, closer to a "counterinsurgency campaign", really. Do you mean Iraq? these guys were so outclassed hardware it's not even funny, so I don't think it's a meaningful comparison.

I believe the OP is referring to the wars-by-proxy of the Cold War era, where the Soviets would arm one side, the US would arm the other. The Yom Kippur War comes to mind.

I even refuse meet people from dating sites if they are from Israel

Well I wasn't convinced, but that statement made me a believer in your righteousness! Your Nobel Peace Prize is already on its way, good sir!

Not unreasonable, but still wrong. The Spanish-American war was between the US and Spain, mainly over stuff occurring in the Caribbean and the Philippines. The Battle of the Alamo was fought when the Texians (name given to the predominantly Anglo rebels) revolted against the Mexican government. If anything, the Alamo is aligned with the Mexican-American war. One of the causes was the US annexation of Texas since Mexico still considered Texas as part of its territory in spite of the Treaty of Velasco nine years earlier.

Wikipedia gives a fairly even-handed treatment of the Spanish-American War, the Mexican-American War, and the Texas War of Independence, which given the massive amount of contention and conspiracy theories running around in academic circles on those subject is tricky to do.

The Battle of the Alamo occurred during the Texian revolt from Mexico and has nothing to do with the Spanish-American War. Unless you're just making a list of things the NY Times didn't put on the wall.

I don't work at Los Alamos, but I do work with sensitive government items, and it's bit more than that actually. Government accountability of sensitive* stuff like this isn't a one-and-done. Inventories of sensitive items are done at regular intervals to make sure that what we said was there last week is actually still here this week. If it ain't, we backtrack to find out where the heck it went off to and whose soul to obliterate for not keep track of their stuff.

*Stuff the US government doesn't want falling into the hands of anyone other than the US government

Yes, but Texas has more women, thus proving that size isn't everything.

Thanks, I'll be here all week

The only thing I can think of is that someone from the MPAA/RIAA is using Capcom as a test-bed for their new DRM scheme.

Off-topic tangent: Perhaps we should be asking ourselves why we need to rely on the government to create conditions of prosperity for us. I thought the American Dream was that individuals create prosperity for themselves.

Yes, actually. Many of the new Republicans that got elected in 2010 feel Afghanistan and Iraq are the limits of what we can do and that the US is spending too much blood and treasure on foreign matters when we can't get our own house in order. I'm willing to bet they could get a non-negligible number of Democrats to agree with them.