Are you stupid? Economically the US DOES NOT need another war. We already have trillions of dollars in debt and our military budget is huge. We have military involvement all around the world and we have the best military in the world. War would only cause us to create more deficit spending. There in no such thing as a "mini-war" We declared war against the country on Iraq in the Persian Gulf Wars. Then we promptly invaded after Saddam Hussein refused to leave Kuwait. Our involvement in Afghanistan is like that of Vietnam or Korea. An undeclared war to battle a group, not a nation. This cost us billions of dollars and thousands of American lives. Also, you seem to think that if you get the shit beaten out of you in war you become powerful. Not true. After WWI and the great depression Germany collapsed financially. The government then tried to save the country but over inflating the currency. This led to the rise of nazism and marxism (communism), which led Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist Party to gain control of Germany when Hitler became Chancellor. Hitler then decided to annex Austria and Czechoslovakia and invade Poland because he wanted more room for the German people. After war was declared against Britain, France, Russia, and the United States, Hitler made many bad decisions that put Germany right back where they were after WWI. Germany is powerful today because of the US aid they received after WWII as part of the Marshall Plan and after the aid from NATO during the age of the Soviet Union. Germany grew over time and became strong. The story is ultimately the same with Japan after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
