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It's honestly incredible how we've learned absolutely nothing. I thought for sure that universally-agreed-upon catastrophe of Iraq would cause the lesson to sti
by Analemma_ 1y ago
It's honestly incredible how we've learned absolutely nothing. I thought for sure that universally-agreed-upon catastrophe of Iraq would cause the lesson to stick, but no, we're running through the same playbook word-for-word. Including the goose-stepping support of the media: go to the homepage of "liberal" publications like The Atlantic right now and you can see full-throated support of the war and them discovering how much they love Trump now.
- slt2021 1y ago[flagged]
- tomhow 1y agoThis is not an acceptable comment on Hacker News. Further, this comment from a week ago is particularly bad: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44293075 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44293075 Sure, if you must engage in discussions about politics here, criticize a country's government and its policies and practices. But don't use these kinds of insinuations and slurs. Please have a read of the guidelines and make an effort to observe them in future. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- sixothree 1y agoYou'd be surprised how many people view it as a success.
- stickfigure 1y agoIf no ground invasion starts in the next few months, will you reconsider your position?
- cosmicgadget 1y agoYes with titles like "American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran".