Nathan_wheeler,
The idea of 50 nations being bombed by the United States since World
War II seemed pretty high to me, forcing my curiousity to get the
better of me. In looking into it further, the highest count that I
could find was 26. I noted that some of these sites that list United
States bombings talk about the "50 years since World War II" and I
suspect that those "50 years" have been juxtaposed into "50
countries." Even allowing for these sites to count the same country
more than once, the highest number of incidents I found was 37
(including some things that were not bombings or that are described as
"proxy" actions).
Looking at the list of 26 countries then, 13 are a republic or some
variety of democracy. I do not know how well those democracies are
functioning. It would depend upon subjective criteria. Here is the
list of 26 countries, duplicate entries removed:
China (Communist)
Korea (North Korea, authoritarian socialist dictatorship; South Korea,
Republic)
Cuba (Communist)
Belgian Congo (dictatorship, transitional)
Laos (Communist)
Vietnam (Communist)
Libya (military dictatorship, or local council government
"Jamahiriya")
Iran (theocratic republic, theocracy)
Kuwait (constitutional monarchy)
Somalia (transitional)
Sudan (authoritarian military junta)
Afghanistan (transitional)
Yugoslavia (has broken into multiple states)
Guatemala (constitutional democratic republic)
Indonesia (republic)
Dominican Republic (representative democracy)
Peru (republic)
Cambodia (multiparty democracy under constitutional monarchy)
Lebanon (republic)
Grenada (constitutional monarchy, Westminster-style parliament)
El Salvador (republic)
Nicaragua (republic)
Panama (constitutional democracy)
Iraq (republic)
Croatia (presidential/parliamentary democracy)
Bosnia (emerging federal democratic republic)
Also, it is odd to me that the author of the email question wants to
exclude the ten years prior to the end of World War II, which would
then allow this list to contain the democracies of Germany and Japan,
as noted in my comment below.
CIA World Fact Book 2002: National Governments
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2128.html
A list of the countries that the U.S. has bombed since the end of
World War II
http://www.human-net.org/war-issue/en/facts/usabomb.htm
No War
http://www.davidbeaumont.btinternet.co.uk/msf/listbombed.html
Inevitable Ring to the Unimaginable
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/home/enviro/peace/pilger-E.html
Search Strategy: Find the longest list of countries and correlate to
the Government type found in the CIA World Fact Book.
Search Terms: 50 countries bombed since World War II
://www.google.com/search?q=50+countries+bombed+since+World+War+II
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