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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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