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Flipper, since your jaw is already on the floor, you might want to check out Smedley Bulter’s book “War is a Racket.” From Wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940) was a United States Marine Corps major general, the highest rank authorized at that time, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S. history.

During his 34-year career as a Marine, he participated in military actions in the Philippines, China, in Central America and the Caribbean during the Banana Wars, and France in World War I. Butler later became an outspoken critic of U.S. wars and their consequences.

He was the epitome of the gung ho Marine, so it took awhile for him to reflect on what his participation in America’s continuous engagement in war meant. He came to a different conclusion than Carter’s “adopt our American principles” assertion.

From a speech Smedley gave in 1934:

I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”

Most towns have war memorials near their downtown area. If you check them out, the long history of America’s wars is on display — they usually have a separate monument to, or at least mention of, several of the less well-known, though many have fallen down the memory hole.

If you don’t mind that your jaw might be permanently dislocated, check out William Blum’s book “Killing Hope” on post-WWII American military/CIA interventions — a very well-sourced accounting.

(Corrected author’s name)