(September 29, 2016 at 2:26 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: They were called war reparations and the first world war ones caused the second world war indirectly.
Yeah, I thought that's what we learned from WWI. Trying to get reparations after a war only prolongs the bitterness and the sense of victimization, which will lead to another war. Which is what I think Congress wants, thanks to defense contractor lobbying. If you recall, John Boehner criticized President Obama for being an "anti-war president."
And if Congress is trying to give people good feelz before an election, that demonstrates how much they live in their own reality that is disconnected from the rest of us. Did they really think we wouldn't see it as just a political stunt?
