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pembrooktoday at 7:48 AM2 repliesview on HN

Oh come on. You’re trying to be edgy without any understanding of reality.

It’s like saying History will record Gavrilo Princip as having won WW1. Huh?

America’s current troubles are political polarization and ballooning deficits. Both of which are happening in every developed country, having nothing to do with 9/11. The foreign interventionism is a 100 year tradition in the US, nothing new under the sun.

The only thing Bin Laden accomplished is making air travel annoying, making some military contractors filthy rich, and getting hundreds of thousands of his Muslim brothers killed over values that are slowly eroding in the Middle East anyways.

The American global military empire was always going to decline over time, if anything, his actions reversed that decline and led to more American intervention. He got the opposite of what he wanted.


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pjc50today at 7:54 AM

I do think spending a trillion dollars on Iraq might have something to do with the deficit.

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watwuttoday at 9:33 AM

> America’s current troubles are political polarization and ballooning deficits.

American problem is one sided right wing radicalization, not polarization. If left of center moved the the right even more, the issues would remain.

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