Doug Bandow
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Policy Nerd, Journalist Wannabe Cato Institute Senior Fellow Florida State University, Stanford Law School Former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan
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Hateful Southern Poverty Law Center, which labels anyone it doesn't like as hate group, is sued for defamation.
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Daylight savings time is ending. This time change back and forth is really, really stupid. Let's keep one or the other and stop forcing all of us to change our clocks for no good purpose. We don't get any more light overall!
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They want war if America does the fighting!
A Saudi paper close to the royal family literally called for U.S. strikes on Iran a few days ago.
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Trump administration about to get a lot scarier. McMaster out, no loss. But replace by John Bolton, who wants war with just about everyone. What happened to
@realDonaldTrump
who ran for office denouncing
@HillaryClinton
as a warmonger?
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The republican party--it's only purpose apparently is to mimic the Democrats. Couldn't we save money by merging the two parties and dispensing with elections? After all, In Washington almost everyone is a big spending warmonger.
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Candidate
@realDonaldTrump
denounced
@HillaryClinton
for being a warmonger. Now he is doing what she would have done.
Tonight,
@POTUS
Donald J. Trump addressed the nation to announce a combined operation- with the
#UnitedKingdom
and
#France
- of precision strikes against sites associated with the chemical weapons capabilities of the
#Assad
regime in
#Syria
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Why should I have to bail out a shale oil company? Will they send me a check during good times. This is corporate welfare of the worst sort.
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Wander around the globe committing regime change. Unintended consequence: Members of Axis of Evil want nukes.
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A scary 10-minute film of January 6 and the attack on the Capitol. I hate to think what would have happened if the mob had come across Mike Pence or Nancy Pelosi. The demonstrators wanted to "fight for Trump," not the country or Constitution.
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Republican establishment leaders are braindead when it comes to foreign policy. They want war, war, and more war. That is one way to ensure that they lose future elections.
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U.S. attacks other nations. U.S. subsidizes proxy forces. U.S. threatens to destroy other countries. U.S. uses sanctions to starve other peoples. U.S. backs aggressor nations that attack other countries. That doesn't seem normal ...
.
@SecPompeo
: The Islamic Republic of Iran is not a normal state. Normal states do not attack embassies and military installations in peacetime; fuel terrorist proxies and militias; serve as a sanctuary for terrorists; call for the destruction of Israel & threaten other countries.
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Why is US still involved in Afghanistan? Almost 17 years later, attempting to build democracy in Central Asia ...
An IG warned the "full extent of child sexual assault committed by Afghan security forces may never be known" because US govt. agencies don't want to know
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Shocking: US officials say they aren't certain the drone was not in Iranian airspace. And that is one reason the retaliatory strike was dropped. Really?? After running around asserting this was outrageous aggression and getting the War Party busy pushing for military action?
Key point in story of Trump calling off strike over downed US drone: senior administration official admits its possible it did violate Iranian airspace.
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With 60 million unvaccinated Americans, it makes no sense to bar unvaccinated foreigners who test negative.
#LetNovakPlay
! Ensure that the US Open is truly "open," unlike the Australian Open, which barred the multi-year champion who had defeated the two finalists.
Novak Djokovic has just withdrawn from Cincinnati but there is a glimmer of hope surrounding his US Open participation. The CDC is now reviewing travel rules (i.e. vaccination) "in the coming weeks" after relaxing Covid-19 protocols in community settings.
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US policy toward
#Syria
has failed. Today US is perversely punishing victims, with officials perversely celebrating hardship caused by sanctions. US should w/draw troops, end sanctions & encourage others to engage Damascus, I argue for
@RStatecraft
@catofp
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If you ever wondered how horrid human beings can be to one another... there are things worse than a Trump tweet
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I am not one for conspiracy theories. But legitimate questions raised on whether it makes sense for Soviets to kill Skripal. Main point is Putin could have executed him while in custody. Doesn't make sense now. Worth asking why?
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Would the US defend it from Azerbaijan? Or stand back and let the Azeris go wild?
"If Armenia actually wants to align with the West, there is a simple way to demonstrate its interest: leaving the CSTO," argues Wes Martin.
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National Security Adviser McMaster is talking of war. That would be madness.
A letter to President Trump from six big name North Korea experts urges talks with Pyongyang ASAP "to avoid a nuclear catastrophe"
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I guess socialism isn't so great after all.
"This month the IMF projected that Chile will be the first country in South America to reach $30,000 per capita in 2022. They also warned that by 2023, Venezuela's per capita income will have shrunk by 60% from 2013."
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Finally a cable show willing to challenge neocon warmongers. After the many disasters at their hands ...
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Which is why the
@SecPompeo
spend so much time sucking up to the Saudi royals. To stand for freedom ...
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My friend and colleague Ted Carpenter dissects the dishonesty of the media, exemplified by Samantha Power, in covering the Balkans a quarter century ago.
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Like compassionately starting a war that killed 100s of 1000s of foreign civilians. Ravaged religious minorities. And unleashed ISIS. VERY compassionate!!
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The GOP has gone insane. They don't understand why Trump lost and the down ticket won. Duh ... Most people do not act like, er, massive, monumental jerks all of the time to everyone.
@potus
tossed the race away by his conduct. His choice. No excuses.
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There may be dumber reasons to support criminalizing drug use. But I'm not aware of one. "They give us an excuse to search your car for other things," says Rep. Joe Kennedy.
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A wonderful good Samaritan. Blocked a scam that would have cost a 92-year-old $25,000.
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Would be a good step. Militarizing the cops is rarely necessary and often very unhelpful.
I will be introducing an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act to discontinue the program that transfers military weaponry to local police departments.
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Biden administration says it is for human rights. But not, apparently for Palestinians. Continues to deny reality of Israeli occupation of more than half century.
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Time to get out of America's longest war. No more nation-building. No more illusions of forcing liberal democracy, centralized government.
Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan by me
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Blame George w bush, not Barack Obama, for ISIS.
Only a decision not to invade Iraq in 2003 would clearly and unequivocally have averted the rise of ISIS.
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Who wins, loses from leaving
#Syria
? Winners: US, American people, Constitution, rule of law, fiscal responsibility, US military personnel. Losers: War Party, Lindsey Graham, editorialists for perpetual war, imperial war-making presidency, advocates of war against Iran, Saudis
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Sadly, I discovered long ago that warmongering Neocons seem to have more money than peacenik libertarians! 😭
Congratulations to
@Doug_Bandow
for making the corrupt Ukraine govt.'s blacklist of anti-war scholars and activists. Now Doug has to raise his speaking fees.
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.
@aaronjmate
looks at brave stand of
@TulsiGabbard
agst America's dirty war on
#Syria
. Members of Washington blob, like former Amb. James Jeffrey, who lied to Trump on Syrian troop #'s, celebrate sanctions that starve Syrians and prevent reconstruction.
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WWI was stupid, idiotic, destructive, unnecessary war. US had no business getting into middle of imperial killfest. Americans died so Woodrow Wilson could play global peacemaker--instead helped set the stage for even worse conflict.
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Democrat Tulsi Gabbard is most disliked candidate among Dems. Which reflects the fact she is the best one.
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He got this one right!
“It should not be the job of America to replace regimes around the world. This is what President Trump recognized in Iraq, that it was the biggest foreign policy disaster of the last several decades, and he’s right...The generals still don’t get the mistake.”
@RandPaul
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Dwight Eisenhower told us about the cost of perpetual war.
NEW: 70 years ago, President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered his Chance for Peace speech warning Americans of what an unending arms race would cost our society.
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Problem w/ listening to George W. Bush, even when he seems to make some sense, is that he is responsible for 1000s of dead Americans, 100s of 1000s of dead Iraqis & millions of displaced Iraqis. Loosed al-Qaeda in Iraq which turned into ISIS & empowered Iran. Should become a monk
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#georgewbush
is responsible for 100s of 1000s of dead Iraqi civilians and 1000s of dead Americans. He should shut up, sit at home, and repent for his crimes. Fact no one in US is ever held responsible for aggression, bombings, and invasions is a great stain on US.
That's how you really know you're onto something there, right, liberals? _Even_ George W. Bush, the worst, stupidest, America-and-lots-of-other-places destroying piece of shit on the planet agrees with your interventionist foreign policy. Ya dummies.
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EU spies say Gulen not involved in
#Turkey
coup. Always seemed dubious charge, for Erdogan's political benefit.
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is kind of outrageous, especially in a supposedly federal system.
The 64% of Americans who support legalization—including half of Republicans—are wondering how an unelected federal official overturned the will of the ~70 million people who live in states that have legalized recreational marijuana—a $9.7 billion industry
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Matthew Hoh and Danny Sjursen, who served in
#Afghanistan
, discuss how the mission was never about human rights and the occupation itself made the Taliban. The war always was FUBAR. A powerful tho depressing presentation with ever vigilant
@aaronjmate
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It really is time for the US to stop acting as if
#Israel
is the superpower and America is the supplicant. Impose sanctions on Israel's violent ethno-nationalists. Enforce sanctions. Take a stand.
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@HillaryClinton
is the candidate of war, I write for
@Forbes
. No war she hasn't supported. Shouldn't be C-in-Chief.
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I say strap her onto one of them and let her enjoy the ride down. Then she can share the pleasure of a bomb burst with the women and children all too commonly killed by US hardware in Gaza and Yemen.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven." - Jesus, the Christ, Matthew 5:43-45a
“Bless those who
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Who enjoys listening to VP Harris? Who imagines President Harris? Who does not break into uproarious laughter at the idea of President Harris? 🤪😜🤪
Vice President Harris is set to place blame on former President Trump for the fall of Roe v. Wade on Monday, the anniversary of the historic Supreme Court decision that overturned the federal right to abortion access.
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Who promoted the 1953 coup? Who backed saddam hussein's aggression? Who imposed sanctions? Who constantly threatened war? Who back Saudi invasion of Yemen? Not Iran.
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@SecPompeo
: "Iran has a long history of unprovoked aggression, 40 years now, against its own people, against its neighbors, and indeed against civilization itself." Read the Secretary's full remarks:
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US government essentially bankrupt even before coronavirus hit. We can't afford to continue trying to run the world, defending rich allies, and engaging in social engineering in Middle East and Central Asia, I argue on
@amconmag
Defense should mean defense
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Bush officials ignored contrary evidence, demonized opponents, relied on unreliable expatriates on US payroll and made multitude of false claims. Result: 100s of 1000s of dead Iraqis, millions of refugees, 10s of 1000s dead/injured Americans, enhanced Iran influence, rise of ISIS
The Iraq war began sixteen years ago tomorrow. There is a myth about the war that I have been meaning to set straight for years. After no WMDs were found, the left claimed "Bush lied. People died." This accusation itself is a lie. It's time to put it to rest.
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Kind of what .
@billkristol
said about all the wars he supported!
Trump: “All will be Great!”
My admittedly limited life experience is that when people assure you, “All will be Great!”, all won’t be great.
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Spreading the word at FreedomFest in Memphis!
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Every time I see memorial for Woodrow Wilson, I am seized with an almost uncontrollable desire to dig up his grave and desecrate his remains. Sanctimonious, racist, arrogant, and so foolish to take America into WWI, a disastrous conflict in which U.S. had no stake
Woodrow Wilson's presidency "has been generally sugar-coated by historians besotted by his messianic dream to implement the Sermon on the Mount through moral suasion at the tips of bayonets."
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I am not into cycling, but wish
@chrisfroome
well in his comeback bid from last year's awful accident. Ouch! He's obviously a tough, committed guy.
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US backs
#Saudiarabia
aggression against
#Yemen
and administration blames
#Iran
! Wow, that makes sense!!
So Saudis savage Yemen for 2 years straight. Houthis attack a Saudi ship. And this becomes "Iran is attacking Our Naval Vessel"?
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Why does
@potus
treat American military personnel as mercenaries, bodyguards for hire? He thinks this is praiseworthy. It is outrageous.
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Why do
@potus
&
@SecPompeo
get their jollies out of starving poor people in poor countries? How does preventing reconstruction in
#Syria
advance US interests? Assad has won brutal civil war, will be well fed, & will stick around. Another huge Trump failure
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Why do supposed friends of liberty insist that people stand for the pledge of allegiance? It makes no sense to pledge allegiance to a flag. And was written by a socialist promoting collectivism
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Glad she will no longer be in Congress to promote wars for other people to fight in.
Listen to this disgusting, lying piece of shit
@Liz_Cheney
claim that "You had senior leaders in al Qaeda, including the number 2 in al Qaeda" - that would be Ayman al-Zawahiri -- "who had been given safe haven in Iraq after 9/11 for years."
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Big tech joins the War Party against the American people.
Today YouTube began removing audio of the 2014 phone call between Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt where they plan the coup in Ukraine.
We’ve uploaded the call to
@SovrenMedia
, an independent platform that will not censor or toe the War Party line.
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Sad news for friends of
@CatoInstitute
and liberty more generally. Andrea Millen Rich, wonderful friend, advocate for freedom, and generous benefactor of Cato passed away. She and her husband of 41 years, the indefatigable Howie Rich, did much, but above all were friends
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The US has been at war in
#Afghanistan
for 19 years, longer than the Civil War, WWI, WWII, and Korean War combined. Campaign to bring US troops home aided by expected nomination of Will Ruger as US ambassador to Afghanistan, I argue in
@Antiwarcom
#catofp
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US munitions. US refueling. US targeting. US responsibility for another crime.
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War with China? Steve Bannon is not just nutty, but also very dangerous.
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Mr.
@SecPompeo
, why do you bend the knee to
#SaudiArabia
? When are you doing to criticize the Saudi royals for creating murder & mayhem by invading
#Yemen
. Kidnapping foreign leaders. Oppressing their own population? And who on earth wants to follow your lead?
.
@SecPompeo
: The whole world is beginning to see that when you bend the knee to China that bad things happen to your own country. What the whole world, indeed freedom-loving people all around the world, must demand is that the CCP live up to the commitments that it makes.
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What goes through brains of those who fill White House & gov't bureaucracies? Why mandate vaccination, w/o booster, for visitors? Djokovic case went to White House. But not willing to kill rule that even health professionals say makes no sense. What gives?
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With
@JoeBiden
set to become president, it is worth noting the many lost opportunities under
@potus
. Perhaps if he had ended 1 war he would have picked up enough votes to have won. Sadly, he was more rhetoric than action, I note in
@Antiwarcom
#catofp
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So it is the rebels who don't want civilians to escape death. We should support them why?
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Come on
@potus
! Let
@DjokerNole
play in the US. Keeping him and other unvaccinated foreigners out doesn't make any Americans any safer. End the absurdity!
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Chinese Dr. Li Wenliang, who issued an early public warning about the coronavirus, was targeted by the police for spreading "rumors," and then contracted the disease from his patients, has died. A hero who tried to save lives. RIP
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US is in crisis at home but members of Washington Blob still believe US should trying to fix Syrian civil war. This really would be a good time to halt Endless Wars, I argue on
@TheNatlInterest
Get the hell out of Syria!!
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Please stop wasting their lives in stupid, unnecessary wars, Mr. Secretary.
On this
#MemorialDay
, we remember all the men and women in uniform who've given their lives for our nation. We are forever grateful for their sacrifice. Our prayers are with their loved ones.
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US is essentially bankrupt, but
@potus
would toss $33 billion more to
#ukraine
. US has spent nearly 80 years defending Europeans, who declined to do so. Time they did so. To start they should come up with the $33 billion, I write on
@Antiwarcom
@CatoFP
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Threaten
#China
with war, try to destroy its industries, accuse its officials of committing genocide, apply sanctions against them, try to organize allies against China ... and ask them to solve a geopolitical problem that you have consistently bungled. Don't hold your breath!
Trying to put
#NorthKorea
the nuclear problem in
#China
’s lap sounds good in press statements. However, when you are looking to your top geopolitical foe to solve your problems, well...
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Americans are involved in a war for peace. One of the major opponents of war is
@Antiwarcom
, for which I write. It needs your help. If not you, who? The War Party, always busy with plans for intervention somewhere, doesn't lack for money, I point out.
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America's alliance with
#SaudiArabia
has outlived any usefulness. The corrupt, authoritarian kingdom is more dangerous than
#Iran
, I argue on
@TheNatlInterest
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Speaking of consequences. Great of you to vote for the Iraq war. How'd that one work out? And your brilliant foray into Libya. Wow, a real winner. Then there was pushing for U.S. involvement in Syria. Your policy created ISIS and strengthened Iran. Well done!! Time to shut TFU.
Actions have consequences, and whether we’re in Syria or not, the people who want to harm us are there & at war. Isolationism is weakness. Empowering ISIS is dangerous. Playing into Russia & Iran’s hands is foolish. This President is putting our national security at grave risk.
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She was in Congress in 1941 and voted against WWII as well.
On this day in 1917 the first woman elected to Congress, Jeanette Rankin, voted not to enter World War I.
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Why does the Trump administration continue to help the Saudi royals slaughter Yemeni schoolchildren?
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A century ago the "peace" conference after World War I opened. The resulting Versailles Treaty, I write in
@amconmag
, gave us World War II and continues to spin off new wars. All for a conflict that the US never should have entered.
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Good news out of S.Carolina. 1) more than half GOP voters against war-mongering Neocons. 2) Bush dynasty dead. 3) GOP a wreck. Well-deserved
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There is much to criticize China for. However, at the moment the U.S., China, and many other countries need to concentrate on combating a dangerous pandemic. Going to verbal war with Beijing today ain't helping anyone, I argue at
@ForeignPolicy
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At time of wars & rumors of wars,
@Antiwarcom
is needed more than ever. War Party is ever active in DC. The folks at
@Antiwarcom
provide information & commentary establishment would prefer you not hear, I argue They get no Pentagon $ & need your support.
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Is there a nuttier, more irresponsible senator than Lindsey "the war would be over there" Graham? What's a little nuclear war among friends? Can we station him in a little shack in the middle of the DMZ so he can have a 1st hand seat when his war starts?
@realDonaldTrump
I am encouraged that there are plans to continue talking.
We must not go back to the status quo.
If negotiations fail, it would be time to end the nuclear threat from North Korea – one way or the other.
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Can I please quit being a royal bodyguard without my consent? How about putting a few princes in uniform to protect their own country. And maybe they should stop bombing weddings and funerals in doing so ...
“We are the army of Saudi Arabia” says Vali Nasr and there is nothing I would rather avoid being.
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Israel will always fight to the last American.
The Netanyahu government has pushed the U.S. to go to war with Iran for more than a decade.
Is it now pushing the US to take on China as well?
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If people with dissident political views cannot safely walk the streets of Washington, D.C., there are going to be a lot of hidden votes for
@potus
. Doesn't matter if Trump has no answer. No one believes that
@JoeBiden
has an answer. Indeed, he is likely to allow the Left to rule
Dreher: "The best argument for Trump’s re-election took place tonight not on the White House South Lawn, but on the streets of Washington near Lafayette Park, outside the White House."
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Hah, hah, hah. US never has violated international law by intervening in another nation's affairs. Hah, hah, hah!
International order for 4 centuries has been based on non-interference in the internal affairs of others and respect for sovereignty. Russia has violated this norm by seizing Crimea and by interfering in the 2016 US election. We must deal w Putin’s Russia as the rogue state it is
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Want coffee and believe in the 2nd amendment? Tirana has the place for you!
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The Spanish-American War set the U.S. forth as an overseas imperialist power. It replaced republican American with imperial Spanish values. The conquest of the Philippines was worse, killing 100s of 1000s of Filipinos along the way, I argue on
@feeonline
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How does
#Russia
threaten US? US has far bigger economy, far stronger military, far more allies. It is US that has ringed Russia with bases & expanded the alliance to Russia's borders. Europe alone capable of containing Russia. Putin is a bad dude but doesn't make him a threat.
Which country is the biggest threat to America?
Russia, says Joe Biden. But China is our biggest competitor.
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Why were they there? Sacrificed in an illegal deployment created by imperial-wannabes who believe there is no conflict the U.S. should not fight. RIP, lives wasted by their supposed leaders.
May their memories be eternal.
This is precisely why the Constitution requires Congress to approve war. U.S. forces should not be engaged in conflict without an affirmative vote from the congressional representatives of the American people. Pass legislation or bring them home.
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Rarely does a day go by and
@LindseyGrahamSC
doesn't promote a war somewhere. Can we post him on the
#Ukraine
front line, so when he gets the war he wants he will get to truly enjoy the festivities?
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US should push
#SaudiaArabia
and
#UAE
to clean up mess they made in attacking Qatar, I argue on
@Forbes
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Israeli forces killed at least six Palestinians and wounded eleven others in a raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday ⤵️
🔗:
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For a couple weeks at this time of the year in 1956 Hungarians freed themselves. Then the Soviets reinstalled tyranny, I write in
@amconmag
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For starting a war based on a lie that left thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of civilians dead, ultimately loosed ISIS upon the world, and led to destruction of large communities of religious minorities in Iraq? I suggest The Hague for his next vacation.
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America has a "German problem": Europe's most prosperous country wants to be defended by America, without doing a whole lot itself, I argue on
@TheNatlInterest
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