• FIash Mob #5678@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, that's the same thing people say every time a war pops up. It was also the justification for the trillions we wasted in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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      1 year ago

      The US supporting a country fighting a defensive war against an aggressive invader isn't equivalent to it invading another country and attempting regime change.

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        1 year ago

        You're right. It's more like 1983, when we poured money out for Saddam Hussein because his guys were going to fight Iraq for us.

        That worked out well.

        But, in the end, it doesn't matter. There's a blank check for war and I'd just love it if people cared about the extent to which we neglect our own people in service of it.