John Podhoretz weighed in on the war with this travesty of an article.
Mark Twain said that history doesn’t repeat itself, but that it often rhymes. We’re rhyming today with the late 1970s, in uncanny ways. To take the most obvious: Inflation is
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Mark Twain castigated the US for atrocities committed during the Philippine insurrection, awful choice of person to quote if you’re making the case for neoconservatism.
And the alternative to leaving in both those cases, after years of domestic displeasure and seeming lack of success was…?
Yes, “our” unwillingness to admit the reality certainly drove “us” to take such incorrect estimations.
So Germany rearming is cool now? Alright, you said it first.
Perhaps if. I space. Out. My. Words. In disjointed. Periods. My point. Will. Seem. Dramatic.
Didn’t work for Chuck Wendig, doesn’t work here.
How can it be “urgent” when it was already our dominant foreign policy for the past 20+ years?
And what led to that “failure of nerve” anyway? It’s not like the answer lies right in that same sentence.
I mean…
“Jimmy Carter is dumb”only gets you so far as an argument.
Former Trotskyite.
And costly for us too…
And what happens when those rebels start having other ideas?
Which resulted in countless innocents dead, all for Nicaragua to be currently ruled by a former Sandinista leader.
Which was a boondoggle and waste of money.
“Now you know, and knowing is only half the battle! GI JOE!”
I mean…
That’s not the own you think it is.
1 million dead Iraqis, 50000 dead Afghanis, and many more would beg to disagree.