It's all "America's bullying foreign policy," you see. I heard the same thing, hell, the same phrases, during the Cold War. If it wasn't for American imperialism and militarism, the Soviet Union would have been no threat at all. Jimmy Carter had to have his face pounded into the truth. Most of us knew it for years before that.
Most liberals and 60's leftists who were going to have a reality check had it on 9/11. Others just plugged the Islamist threat into the same "mostly harmless" category they put the Soviet Union, with the same rhetoric.
Another reality check: We will stay in Afghanistan at most about a year longer than we stay in Iraq. The same tactics that would make the United States flee Iraq will work exactly the same there, for exactly the same reasons, and the same forces in our own country will attempt to wreck that war as well.
My brother flew cargo planes in the first Gulf War. My children will make their own decisions.
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Scared? I'm not the one retreating into fantasy.
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- Hoyer over Murtha, 149 - 86
- I find Dems not in lockstep refreshing
- Contrast that with the Rs electing Lott.
- I like Hoyer better...
- Actually, this is encouraging.
- Curious as to what makes you think Hoyer is less nutty than Murtha (n/t)
- Symbolism
- What kind of Republicanism does Lott represent, then? (n/t)
- The kind that just got its ass kicked at the polls.
- What is this New Right of which I speak?
- This might sound like a slam but I assure you it is not.
- The kind that just got its ass kicked at the polls.
- Ah those were the days
- What kind of Republicanism does Lott represent, then? (n/t)
- Symbolism
- Curious as to what makes you think Hoyer is less nutty than Murtha (n/t)
- Yup. (n/t)
- Actually, this is encouraging.