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morshu9001last Saturday at 6:22 PM2 repliesview on HN

I prefer this honesty over the unrealistic expectations the US set up in each Mid East country plus Afghanistan.


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joering2last Saturday at 7:23 PM

How about not going there at all for whatever reason, under any circumstances. And there are bigger issues at stake, no amount of drugs "made in Venezuela" inhaled by Americans can kill them as much as one North Korean Nuke.

I'm surprised no lesson the US learnt from similar overthrows in the past, but again this is Trump. The country can get so unstable that by the time Marco start giving out "legitimate" orders, there will be 30 different groups fighting and killing each other. True unchecked anarchy. So what's then? Boots on ground. Are we still in the spirit of sacrificing 150,000 American soldiers in the name of freedom, like we did in Iraq? When we kicked out Russians from Middle East we were not aware they kept islam jihadists at bay, then Al Quaida came to live and we all now how it ended.

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boston_clonelast Saturday at 7:41 PM

but why put yourself in a false dichotomy?

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