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Warmongers Keep Raging About The Phrase 'Ending The Forever Wars' And We Should Laugh At Them

"They're literally using that phrase, 'ending the forever wars', and then saying it's a bad thing. I mean, what a bizarre hill to die on."
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Warmongers Keep Raging About The Phrase 'Ending The Forever Wars' And We Should Laugh At Them

"They're standing there right in front of us and wagging their fingers at us for opposing something as straightforwardly and self-evidently bad as endless war."
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Influential promoters of western militarism have been fuming about the popular idea of ending the forever wars, and their tantrums are not even trying to disguise it as something else. They're literally using that phrase, "ending the forever wars", and saying it's a bad thing.

I mean, what a bizarre hill to die on. War is the very worst thing in the world, and forever is the very worst amount of time they could go on for, yet they're openly condemning the "doctrine of ending the forever wars".

The Hague fugitive Tony Blair recently made headlines bloviating about the concept of ending forever wars with the revulsion you'd normally reserve for people advocating the elimination of age of consent laws or legalizing recreational panda punching.

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1429455954563813387?s=20

As Blair well knows, the only reason no allied soldier had lost their life in combat for 18 months was because the Trump administration had cut a deal with the Taliban in February 2020 *on condition of withdrawal from Afghanistan*.
news.antiwar.com/2021/02/08/no-…

Pretending the lack of deaths among occupying forces was because the occupation easy or sustainable is disgusting. And not that Blair cares but it's not like the occupation hasn't been slaughtering mountains of civilians during those eighteen months.

https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1430990717153779712?s=20

Then there's Paul Wolfowitz, who's been on a media tour throughout the withdrawal because obviously everyone wants to hear the opinions of Bush administration war criminals about whether it's okay to end the Bush administration's criminal wars.

https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1431604911683350536?s=20

Then there's UAE-funded war propagandist Charles Lister hilariously arguing that the withdrawal shows a failure of the "ending forever wars doctrine" on the basis that it caused the "crumbling of a democratic government" and made "Al Qaeda ecstatic".

https://twitter.com/Charles_Lister/status/1430885658969743361

Hilarious because only by the most determined mental gymnastics was the corrupt US puppet regime in Afghanistan "democratic", and because Lister has been an outspoken advocate of Al Qaeda in Syria.

https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1309524892954615811?s=20

There's also the insufferably hawkish Congressman Adam Kinzinger, who has received campaign donations from Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.
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https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1430932036546547714?s=20

In a recent National Review article titled "The ‘Forever War’ Fallacy", MSNBC contributor Noah Rothman rages against the notion of ending perpetual military slaughter.
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"In Afghanistan, the demagogues who wanted to see an end to America’s 'forever wars,' regardless of the consequences, got their wish. It has been a disaster arguably without parallel," writes Rothman, who's apparently never heard of the disaster called the Afghanistan occupation.

Perhaps the funniest case was Richard Haass, president of the wildly influential war propaganda firm Council on Foreign Relations, arguing on Twitter for a rebranding of "endless occupation" to "open-ended presence".

https://twitter.com/RichardHaass/status/1431055016492617728

I mean, where to even start with that one?

The fact that these people are thought leaders of policy-shaping influence and not fringe pariahs of society shows that our world is being steered by idiots and sociopaths.

They're standing there right in front of us and wagging their fingers at us for opposing something as straightforwardly and self-evidently bad as endless war. ENDLESS WAR.

They should be mocked and laughed at for this.

We will know our world is becoming sane when such creatures are regarded with scorn and ridicule instead of being taken seriously by the largest platforms in our society. Never stop making fun of these freaks.