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Amazing. 400 words and not once does he actually oppose Trump’s killing of Soleimani . Nothing but posturing, unspecified handwringing and high minded West Wing-ese filler
another 400 word statement from another ex-CIA/DOD dem. Also doesn't ever actually oppose Trump's killing of Solemiani. Similar handwringing, weird ESPN-style gaming out, lots of Serious Sounding NatSec filler.
beginning to notice there's a direct correlation between how long a democrats statement is on Trump's Solemiani killing and how much they don't actually oppose it.
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except there is a plan, a rather clear one that's been laid out by this admin and anti-Iran orgs like FDD they've staffed their Iran policy out to from day one. It's to bait Iran into a war and continue "maximum pressure" using bombings, sanctions, sectarian proxies, etc.
Trump's strategy isn't coming from nowhere, it's what neoconservatives have been lobbying the US do for 20+ years. It's not random and haphazard. The threats and bombings are all designed to provoke war and eventually regime change (or mass punishment if that's all they can get)
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this is a major rhetoric problem and one i've been writing about for yrs & i have no idea how people dont see how prefacing nominal anti-war statements by ACCEPTING THE ENTIRE MORAL PREMISE OF A WAR/BOMBING is a bad idea. It's not "nuance" its helping further PR for US aggression
at the very least if someone insists Bad Guy X "has murdered 1000s" or "has blood on their hands" Im curious if they think the same of US/Saudi/Israeli leaders. If not, why not, if so then how is this moral distinction meaningful in the context of MENA beyond careerist signaling?
US/UK liberals (anecdotally I would argue way more than other countries I've visited) are very quick to create ad hoc moral categories of Bad Actors with little attempt at forming a coherent model for how these categories are arrived at or what their implications will be.
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I keep coming back to the basic contradiction in liberal discourse on climate crisis, on display in this poll but also US media in general (see: last week's Feasibility Scolding of Sanders GND in NYT): if one believes the science what the fuck difference does the cost matter?
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