RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
November 27, 2019 at 11:59 pm
(This post was last modified: November 28, 2019 at 12:04 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It's in our best interests to maintain a world order with ourselves at the head. Argue with this until you're blue in the face based on whatever evil you think we do around the world..and it will still be true. Even if we were the literal devil..it would still be in -our- best interests to maintain -our- hegemony. Pick a lane and stick with it.
A perpetual fact free round of both-sidesism is useless. Fine...fine..fine. Were horrible fuckers that do terrible things. The other guys are worse fuckers that do more horrible things. Yes, it's better in Iraq and Afghanistan than it used to be - not because we're just so damned good, or good at this..but because it completely blew beforehand. If you want to know who we're helping around the world, then educate yourself. It's not hard to find that info.
Yemens a great counterexample to positions like the one espoused by Tulsi. We should, and could be helping in Yemen.,..but we're just too cozy with a clutch of dictators who have their own interests in the region, huh? OFC, we have provided them with over 700 million in assistance in the last couple of years....so there's that.
There's such a thing as being critical of american policy decisions, and such a thing as swallowing anti-american propaganda hook line and sinker. They are not the same things. I assume you're aiming for the former, rather than the latter.
A perpetual fact free round of both-sidesism is useless. Fine...fine..fine. Were horrible fuckers that do terrible things. The other guys are worse fuckers that do more horrible things. Yes, it's better in Iraq and Afghanistan than it used to be - not because we're just so damned good, or good at this..but because it completely blew beforehand. If you want to know who we're helping around the world, then educate yourself. It's not hard to find that info.
Yemens a great counterexample to positions like the one espoused by Tulsi. We should, and could be helping in Yemen.,..but we're just too cozy with a clutch of dictators who have their own interests in the region, huh? OFC, we have provided them with over 700 million in assistance in the last couple of years....so there's that.
There's such a thing as being critical of american policy decisions, and such a thing as swallowing anti-american propaganda hook line and sinker. They are not the same things. I assume you're aiming for the former, rather than the latter.
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