13366776, I appreciate that you're one of the few here with a focus on war Posted by Vex_id, Wed Feb-12-20 12:32 PM
and foreign policy.
>The folks who were ready to publicly, actively take to the >streets and decry US military activity have been right about >basically everything for more than fifty years now. And >somehow we moved past the part where we go "those guys were >right about Vietnam and right about Afghanistan and right >about Iraq twice so maybe we should listen to them" and just >take it for granted that those, past wars might have been >disasters but the next one, well, that's probably going to go >fine.
>I don't even like Gabbard that much, but the way she's >maintained a national profile is through a pretty unusual act >of political courage. If you don't think that's true, try to >remember the last time you saw somebody on cable news take a >firm position against war in general. It's incredibly rare >because that conversation has been hijacked by the SERIOUS >THINKERS who understand things that us idiots don't.
^all facts.
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