Jon Stewart on Learning Curves
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Like Obama is keeping us so safe...
(feel the sarcasm)
(feel the sarcasm)
You mean after his Republican predecessors, even going back a few administrations, placed you in danger in the first place?
Yeah... let's talk about the great job Jimmy Carter did in the region.
So you guys haven't yet watch the video, have you? You may not like the conclusion, but you cannot argue with the historical facts.
I watched the video. I don't like the conclusion - but I don't like it because it's true and a sad, sorry state of where this country has gotten to. What is your point?
You act like there's a "less smelly turd" on one side of the aisle than the other. The GOP and the Democrats, both, over the years have supported this horrible policy. As Stewart says, it started in the 80s (actually before that, but let's not spoil a funny monologue), and Presidents Carter, Reagan, Clinton, Bush (both of them), and Obama (not to mention massive bi-partisan support in congress - repeatedly) are all guilty for bad decisions made with faulty data. Why? Because they're two sides of the same coin, funded by the same war machine money that has been driven by the same priorities (oil and money) at the cost of American blood.
So I ask again, what point was it you were trying to make?
Actually I watched the video before I posted and enjoyed it. However we all know Stewart's bias in his political comedy. Neither Democrats or Republicans are blameless in the situation, however I view that Obama did a far worst job than other recent presidents when it comes to our international security.
My point is that you guys like blaming those who are perhaps the least to blame. Not that anyone is blameless.
I think maybe you guys should follow the historical sequence of events to see who was most to blame at critical junctures, and not just when it most suits you.
I think maybe you guys should follow the historical sequence of events to see who was most to blame at critical junctures, and not just when it most suits you.
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"perhaps" being the operative word. When it comes to foreign policy there are no clean hands and the screw ups, mis-calculations, and outright wrong doings go back decades, with every political hack of all stripes having had their greedy little hands in it.