Get the U.S. OUT of the middle east, who's with me?

[woo me with science]

62. "and I don't think we're in one now"

And that is the crux of the problem, isn't it. What an utterly stunning caveat you make there, in your sea of justifications. No, we're not in one now, even though our drones cross borders to slaughter human beings in multiple countries now, without judicial oversight and even though we are not at war with them. It's not just one area in which we don't have a "justifiable military conflict"; it's a veritable list. And that list will continue to grow for as long as corporate profiteers purchase Washington policy, and for as long as corporate-bought politicians and their mouthpieces justify the unjustifiable.

If you truly believe that we aren't in a justifiable military conflict right now, you would do well to spend your time raising awareness and activism about that, rather than engaging in this sort of bland, disingenuous defense of the indefensible through carefully worded, nonsensical caveats.

All the rest of your post is predictable right-wing spin: setting up a false choice between having troops on the ground and the unconscionable drone proxy wars we have now, accusing me of not being "calm" because I point out the fact that you are defending neocon policies just as surely as Republicans defended them under Bush, appealing to "defense of Israel" as an excuse for the policies I have described multiple times here but you can't justify, and, predictably, making the ludicrous argument that these policies could not possibly be neoconservative, because *Democrats* now pursue them. Good grief.

You will come back with more of the same, I am sure. DU is thick with it now. I am finished here, but it's important to label this sort of oh-so-familiar right-wing, neocon propaganda for what it is, whether it comes from corporate Republicans or corporate Third Way Democrats