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THE INFINITY WAR. We say we’re a peaceful nation. Why do our leaders always keep us at war?
Washington Post ^
| Dec 13 2019
| Samuel Moyn and Stephen Wertheim
Posted on 12/16/2019 3:36:54 PM PST by rintintin
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posted on
12/16/2019 3:36:54 PM PST
by
rintintin
To: rintintin
Money. More conflict provides more political advertisement revenues for the media.
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posted on
12/16/2019 3:39:11 PM PST
by
FreedBird
To: rintintin
Dear fedgov,
you’re fired
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posted on
12/16/2019 3:40:51 PM PST
by
Pollard
(If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
To: rintintin
President Eisenhower warned us of the Military industrial complex. It has grown into large charges for weapons, big banks, politicians amassing great wealth. Deep state is the current military industrial complex.
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posted on
12/16/2019 3:44:20 PM PST
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: rintintin
To be fair, we didn't fire the first shot on 9/11. We couldn't just sit back and not respond.
But the problem of no longer being willing to go to 'total war' goes back to just after WWII. Nation building is not our job, and we are not good at it outside of western culture.
The non-western cultures only understand brutal force and only respect strength.
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posted on
12/16/2019 3:44:30 PM PST
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
To: FreedBird
Not to mention all the money that disappears and likely ends up in the coffers of corrupt politicians.
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posted on
12/16/2019 3:45:15 PM PST
by
rfreedom4u
(The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
To: rintintin
I guess I should have been a policy maker. I doubted it could succeed from day one and knew it was a bad idea. Little Georgy lead us down a bad path.
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posted on
12/16/2019 3:45:43 PM PST
by
VTenigma
(The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
To: rintintin
Why do our leaders always keep us at war?
Profiteering.
Many get rich off of war costs.
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posted on
12/16/2019 3:51:11 PM PST
by
TomGuy
To: All
To: rintintin
We have always been at war with East Asia.
To: rintintin
Eisenhower tried to warn us........
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posted on
12/16/2019 4:03:49 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(..........and Epstein didn't kill himself. Yeah, I went there.)
To: rintintin
Obama said that Afghanistan was the good war, that we needed to be focused there and had no business in Iraq (even though Saddam had repeatedly broken the peace agreement of the first Gulf War).
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posted on
12/16/2019 4:04:53 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
To: rintintin
We don’t have leaders...we have representatives ...
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posted on
12/16/2019 4:07:05 PM PST
by
bankwalker
(Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
To: rintintin
Because war consumes our alpha males while enriching the elite.
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posted on
12/16/2019 4:07:13 PM PST
by
Caipirabob
(Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: rintintin
Washington Post used to run a bogus “Bush’s fault war dead” list. It included someone who died crossing a highway in the midwest.
When Obama became president they didn’t run a daily ‘body count’ list.
Is the Washington Post anti-war again?
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posted on
12/16/2019 4:07:14 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
To: rintintin
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posted on
12/16/2019 4:08:15 PM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: rintintin
In no small part it’s because of propaganda organs like WaPo.
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posted on
12/16/2019 4:09:40 PM PST
by
thoughtomator
(... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
To: rintintin
No one has ever tamed Afghanistan and no one ever will.
We should never have set one foot in the country.
Bounce the rubble for 30 days of B-52 raids and call it a day was all that was called for.
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posted on
12/16/2019 4:10:00 PM PST
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
To: bankwalker
Somebody better tell the Martians👽But I agree with you 110%, I cringe when I hear people refer to them as, "Leaders".
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posted on
12/16/2019 4:17:22 PM PST
by
crosdaddy
(Arl)
To: Magnum44
“To be fair, we didn’t fire the first shot on 9/11. We couldn’t just sit back and not respond.”
But Afghanistan had not attacked us. Saudis did. But the answer to the question is that war has become profitable.
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posted on
12/16/2019 4:18:27 PM PST
by
dvan
(Send Them Home!Napolatono)
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