Why is everyone in an uproar?

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63. He was exactly right

because this is what gets "said" during times of hostilities. It's all rhetoric and the State Dept. follow-up was to assuage the hand-wringers who don't understand the purpose of propaganada.

Any "Democrat" accepting any RW characterizations of what was said as being a "gaffe" or a "mistake" is the perfect example of feeding the "Democrats have no messaging" nonsense.

Those who have followed the U.S. the past 20 years should realize that until this past fall, thanks to the MIC, we have had troops in some theater of operation continuously over those 20 years, whereas Russia has not. And this isn't counting our Iraq/Kuwait engagements nor our Bosnia engagements in the '90s.

I.e., our military is essentially battle hardened vs Russia's only 3rd "full" engagement in some battle (by themselves) since the fall of the Soviet Union after they ended their engagement in Afghanistan (i.e., 2 weeks in 2008 for Georgia, 3 weeks in 2014 for Crimea, and now).