mon666ster - 2014-09-12
So in a month, Sanders has been in favour of attacking Gaza and ISIS.
There are no good politicians.
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Void 71 - 2014-09-12 A lot of otherwise sane jewish leftists lose their shit when they start talking about the middle east. Sanders is just another name to add to that list.
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SolRo - 2014-09-12 And the Kurds that the US is tripping over itself to arm are starting to ethnically cleanse that region of sunni civilians.
And it's 2004 all over again! woo!
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Bort - 2014-09-12 SolRo, got a link for that? I'm looking around and, unsurprisingly enough, I'm finding tons of links about ISIL / ISIS / ODIN / whatever ethnically cleansing, but nothing about Kurds doing the same.
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SolRo - 2014-09-13 NPR was covering it, and google is fucking useless for finding anything specific anymore...why yes google, I need to see the 30 OTHER blogs republishing the same AP story I don't need in the first place.
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PegLegPete - 2014-09-12
It's not only stupid and arrogant to think you can use military force to positively change a country: it's a pretty fucked up idea in the first place. We have to keep in mind these invasions aren't because our government gives a shit about innocent people. These are strategic decisions. If the government gave a shit about innocent people, we'd have been in Africa numerous times to prevent genocide. Don't forget there's oil in Iraq, it's near Israel, and near our other Gulf courtiers.
I also think it's funny that Sanders didn't even refute the "tough guy" method/image. I guess you could chalk it up to him just having a couple of minutes on TV, but it's probably just the fact that Liberals are actually about as hawkish as most conservatives on foreign policy, they're just a little smarter.
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Bort - 2014-09-13 "It's not only stupid and arrogant to think you can use military force to positively change a country"
Tell that to Germany. No, you can't use military solutions to solve every problem, but when you've got a genocidal bunch of fuckheads swarming over a country, perhaps countering their military forces with our military forces (or someone's forces, anyway) is not necessarily a crazy idea.
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