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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
what if the last tim e we were in a live war where we were really threatened was 1945? Or what if, in the past, they didn't need to call because they weren't worried about newspaper coverage?
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You lean quite heavily on the prospect that bad shit's been done in the past in the name of advancing American interests. Neither you nor I really know how much this has occurred in the past, but I'm sure that it has in times of crisis.
To my mind, though, these incidents either occur outside of the government's official policy apparatus, or if they occur within it, history usually concludes that it was an unfortunate and ultimately unneccesary retreat in the battle for liberty.
I find your enthusiastic embrace of not only the choice to embrace the bad shit that you deem necessary, but also to enshrine it as part of governmental policy, baffling.
