Where exactly did Boston bombers come from? Keep telling your self it's just CNN...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Politkovskaya
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...lled_in_Russia
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You don't have to get it. If you don't understand why after the past 15 years, you likely never will. There has been very little public support for more conflict, escalation of existing conflict, or venturing into new and exciting conflict. It doesn't take a "physical impression"(whateverthefuck) for people to be wary of military interaction.
When given the opportunity to buy-in with a congressional approval of military intervention in Syria, Congress infamously said "no thanks, we don't actually want to participate in this process." Compare that to the sales job leading up to the Iraq war.
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They'll have to deal with him if his policies end up directly in conflict with their own. Russia is a prime example.
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
Try reading them. If your interest is not peeked by the the amount you can read in 2 min, check the date on Anna's murder date and Putin's birthday.
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This is relevant:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/wo....20479953.html
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
Not sure if jumping the shark is an apt term here. Masochistic in that they desire to be less powerful, less in command, more subservient. Ideologues in that they have no real physical, pragmatic connection to war and are in a fuss about what they read on the internet, filtered through the lens of anti-american ideology.
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
Oh, I assumed you were saying it to draw attention to a rather nonsensical argument. You've clearly made up for that by...extrapolating exactly how nonsensical of an argument it was.
Having an internal conflict about being at war isn't a negative thing. Not wanting the country you live in, it's government, its leaders etc, to not be involved in endless war, whether you have a "physical impression" of it or not, is not a masochistic position to hold. Nor is it anti-American. Your whole argument is just...weird.
Not really. War weariness is generally felt when a country has been at war too long or too intensely. The average American just hasn't had the kind of contact with war that generally elicits war fatigue/weariness. Their leaders are doing all sorts of bad things - guess what? Knowing or not knowing it only changes their emotional state, it doesn't entrench them in the front lines. People like you have an interest in collapsing this distinction because it appeals to your desire to give up power. If you don't get this you might need to rethink your notion of war fatigue.
Your perspective is quite silly because you would still be clamoring about war fatigue if all that was involved was a chess match between two robots.
So much for draining the swamp? The way he appoints the swamp will soon be a vile lake...
Or you, know, if I had multiple friends who were involved in repeated tours of duty, but whatever. So, it need not be direct contact, but as you said in your initial reply; you don't understand. It's not like you desire an actual understanding either, which makes this debate with you rather pointless. As evidenced by your claim of masochism because "anti war". Or, that war=power. You can also keep trying to attribute these traits to me specifically in an attempt to sell your argument, but it isn't all that compelling. You have no idea what "people like me" have an interest in, because you aren't objective enough to actually understand "people like me".
You seem to have this belief that war fatigue can only been a physical thing. The emotional and mental aspect of endless war, the results on the nation as a whole, it's defense, treasury, resources etc, is something people tend to have an interest in. So, my perspective isn't so much silly as it is alien to you, because you are incapable of thinking beyond a "physical impression".
Actually it has everything to do with it... historical context of being allies with Syria, gas pipeline interests, and moral responsibility of preventing another failed state.
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Rebuilt it after destroying it? With many Chechen terrorists fleeing to their handlers in US?
Yeah, I understand why some people think the way they do, that all of these modern luxuries and advantages they've gained don't need to be protected after they've been won. They think that they'll have them no matter what once they've been won. They don't realize that these hard won things need protecting, they just assume they'll always have them. They seem to have this misplaced faith that businesses won't fuck them out of things given the chance.
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