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04-19-2024, 7:51am | #21 | |||||||
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So many problems caused by Jimmy Carter, but this was probably his biggest. Not backing the Shaw was bad enough but by allowing the Ayatollah Kommini to come back to Iran was the worst. With the equipment and knowledge the CIA has, a fatal heart attack or a very fast moving disease could have taken out that POS. Repeat he never should have got out of prison alive.
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Hopefully glass becomes cheaper,,,
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The agency mentioned above far FAR underestimated the islamic movement at that time. The mullah's were utilizing university students to protest violently. Once the US, who was monitoring the situation realized the strength of the movement it was already to late. Failed intelligence 100%. Or intentional? |
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There's a WHOLE LOT of real estate between being a global military empire and "isolationism" -- a term made up by the militant left to smear people who are tired of the never-ending and very expensive meddling overseas. It's all clever propaganda: They have Americans believing that there are only two sides to foreign "aid": Be a global military empire or completely retract from everything. Pick a side, there is no middle ground. The Founding Fathers were well aware of this problem; these were not stupid men. George Washington had these sentiments, and Thomas Jefferson (3rd president) said in his inaugural address in 1801: "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none." That is, maybe, just an ideal to hold, but it has been long abandoned in favor of global power -- and we are paying for it all. |
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Me, nor anyone else I know, has any interest in having enough power to wipe out entire populations. Those desires are only possible to achieve through the vehicle of government. |
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I guess you don't read Bill Daniels posts where he says to completely retract from everything.
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I remember the Big War crowd throwing the term at Pat Buchanan some 30 years ago. |
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Supposedly the White House is contemplating declaring a "climate change emergency" at some point before the election, which would empower the president with broad war powers unobtainable by any other "emergency." And of course those powers will be used against us -- which is the whole point.
If this isn't the pre-election "Black Swan Event," then it will be something else. |
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So you don't like that the term exists at all, even though it conveys a particular foreign policy standpoint that we all generally understand? What term do you prefer to use for someone with that viewpoint?
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All of this is intentional. CIA has been an entity, ie cancer, that has taken over countries for decades. They have been rehired by Europe to crush the USA.
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rocketboy has been a thorn in the USA for over a decade. ALL here want a brokered peace, they want the threat to go away. EVERYONE HAS FAILED, HE CONTINUES TO BE AN AHOLE, AND A MAJOR THREAT. TRUMP does the best he can, takes it closer than anyone before or after him. And your ilk now makes fun of it. EPITOME of having it both ways!! |
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Nixon's action was for sure a tipping point, but don't forget that 38 years earlier FDR forced people to turn in their gold for pieces of paper so he could print more money for his pet projects. Now, they don't even bother trying to justify their expenditures; just crank up the printing presses and pass the money around.
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And if we're looking at allies, I'd say an important metric is, do the countries that are presumably allies send their kids to die for each other's wars. After we deposed Saddam, after previously supporting him against Iran, then paying James Biden to rebuild the country, is Iraq an ally, or is Iraq just a money pit? How about Syria? Why did those 4 soldiers from Georgia have to die there? What were they doing there in the first place? And as far as Israel/Gaza.....it's a weird ally relationship where the US borrows money to send to Israel, yet, I can't recall even one time where Israel sent soldiers and war materiel to help us fight OUR wars. Is there something I missed? Bottom line is, we should have heeded George Washington, who made the reasonable case that America should become strong and independent, and avoid permanent foreign entanglements. As far as our forward military presence......we could close half the overseas bases, BRAC, repatriate those operations here, and have our southern border defended and shut down tighter than a dick's hatband and still be more well positioned than China/Iran/North Korea/Russia combined. Bonus that all the money that supports those foreign bases would now be spent in America, those dollars would circulate in OUR economy, not the economies of other countries, many of whom don't even like us. Beyond all that, we're a broke nation. We can no longer afford the yuge foreign footprint by our military. At some point pulling back won't be an option, it will just happen on its own, just like the USSR collapse. So, modest orderly draw down now, or a redux of the Afghanistan withdrawal on a larger scale? Pick one. Edit: And with that, I'm going to kermie my own post and request this get moved to PR&C, to honor the spirit of Rob's request. |
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As for the bold part, remember, the Dems think Trump loves Russia so of course they will throw every dollar at an effort to attack a friend of Trump's. |
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