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(7,875 posts)Like, maybe during the Clinton administration?
Renew Deal
(81,889 posts)Lodestar
(2,388 posts)that is better than the OLD weaponry. Opportunity knocks once again. Just like the hedge funds,
volatility creates extreme profits, while a peaceful calm creates no opportunity.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)There's TONS OF PROFIT to be made in war!
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)How did the CIA and NSA miss the terrorists gathering enough people and training them, equipping them, and forming an army out of them? I mean, this isn't two guys in Boston with a rice cooker. This is tens of thousands of soldiers and we didn't know anything about it until after they took Mosul?
happyslug
(14,779 posts)And what the House of Saud says us gospel to the power that be in Washington.
zebonaut
(3,688 posts)ok we waited; and now history is the judge
panfluteman
(2,075 posts)Right on, Helen Thomas! I believe that the final judgment of history on George W. Bush will be that he was every bit as disastrous and deluded as the Roman emperors Nero and Caligula. Actually, I believe that we have seen in our recent history many parallels to ancient Rome. One of the things that marked Rome's transition from Republic to oligarchy and empire was trouble and hanky panky with their elections. And so, George W. Bush, the first American emperor's ascension to power was marked by a stolen election. Being a spoiled brat and scion of power and privilege, like Nero and Caligula, "Baby Bush" was clearly in over his head, and lacked the character, intellect, fairness, fortitude and common sense that the office of President really demands. So he chose to rule autocratically, insulated in a bubble of delusion.