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In reply to the discussion: Obama just announced the most anti-war foreign policy doctrine in decades [View all]LynneSin
(95,337 posts)41. The rightwing doesn't want Obama starting wars
they'd rather fight Obama and make him look ineffective and fearful of using our troops.
ANd they know that if Obama started a war he'd probably plan it better than the 2 that Bush did. You know crazy things like Exit strategies so we spend the minimal amount of time in that country and get the job done. Clinton did not spend excessive time in Yugoslavia and 20 years later the country seems to rebounding just fine. Sure it's about 5 new countries now but there seems to be more peace today than back in the 90s.
Long wars means opportunities for War Profiteers to make money off our govenrment like how Halliburton and Blackwater scammed billions of our money off of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Obama just announced the most anti-war foreign policy doctrine in decades [View all]
babylonsister
May 2014
OP
Yeah, you'd actually have to know the Obama Admin's record of history to realize how ignorant your
Cha
May 2014
#101
Two major powerhouses have invaded Afghanistan and yet no one has ever beat them
LynneSin
May 2014
#3
Afghanistan was called the Graveyard of Empires. Bush was an ahistorical idiot, but you knew that
Hekate
May 2014
#24
Bin Laden was never trained by the CIA. That misinformation gets repeated constantly here.
Ikonoklast
May 2014
#68
Thank You! Bookmarking that website now. We are not in charge of the world, that's a myth.
freshwest
May 2014
#78
Don't worry, that train's never late. MSM will be tearing its hair thinking of ways to diss it.
freshwest
May 2014
#28
Training Syrian rebels? Training African rebels and tripling military operations there?
Maedhros
May 2014
#55
The Sandinistas opposed the Somoza Regime, which was a client state of the U.S.
Maedhros
May 2014
#86
Yup...i'm not buying it anymore...especially his continuation of 'American Exceptionalism'...
truebrit71
May 2014
#104
The Libertarians are also going after Obama in the VOX comment section. Might lose some of those
freshwest
May 2014
#83
The Pauls, et al, won't give him any credit for this, will they? They'd rather die first...
freshwest
May 2014
#81
Since drones and foreign but American-supported rebels will do the fighting,
truedelphi
May 2014
#20
Cegelis, Lamont, McKinney, Halter, Romanoff, Sestak, Grayson, Kucinich, Buono, Davis ring any bells?
MisterP
May 2014
#52
Yes, this was all done on the local level by the GOP. Fight back close to home and GOTV!
freshwest
May 2014
#80
Libertiarians at Vox.com while selling anti-war: Attack President for anti-war policy message.
Todays_Illusion
May 2014
#56
Yup. Weren't we supposed to see the "real" Obama after he won his second term...
truebrit71
May 2014
#106
Doesn't he understand the point of foreign policy is to identify a list of evil nations
tclambert
May 2014
#109