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The mainstream media is always very hawkish, they are now offering all kinds of excuses not to pull out.

• hindsightbias 5y ago
  They just reflect the establishment in govt, military and IC. Trump and now Biden (and Obama on Syria) are contrarian on the war.
  • SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
    Im no fan, but do you remember how Trump tried to withdraw more and his own generals lied to him about the numbers? Seems that IC and bureaucrats had a different plan I’m not sure he gets exactly lumped in with Bush and Obama here. Too early to tell what Biden admin will do.
    • hindsightbias 5y ago
      It’s difficult in today’s environment to align with Trump on some FP issues w/o caveats but his first FP speech to the AEI at Georgetown (I think, it’s on c-span somewhere) was filled with him calling them and the neocons a bunch of losers who got us into dumb wars and how he probably wouldn’t hire any of them. The left mostly focused on his “take the oil” comments, not his “get out” statements. Pretty much everyone in Obama’s cabinet and staff is on record saying he screwed up not doing more (boots on the ground) to take out Assad. For all of Trump’s ranting on NATO, I really question the EU’s wanting us to do something about Putin, Ukraine, Syria, etc while shutting their nukes and building gas pipelines to Russia.
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