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awoke_in_2003

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19. Be afraid

Reply to YvonneCa (Original post)

Sat Aug 30, 2014, 09:50 PM

Aug 2014

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

H. L. Mencken

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New Kerry OpEd on ISIS... [View all] YvonneCa Aug 2014 OP

We're going to war. morningfog Aug 2014 #1

That's how I read it too riderinthestorm Aug 2014 #4

Thanks Yvonne~ Cha Aug 2014 #2

You are very welcome... YvonneCa Aug 2014 #5

It would be helpful if you were to post about 4 paragraphs of the piece. Jackpine Radical Aug 2014 #3

I would imagine... YvonneCa Aug 2014 #6

At the moment I'm on an iPad Mini. Jackpine Radical Aug 2014 #7

I have one of those too. :) YvonneCa Aug 2014 #10

Here.........more than 4 paragraphs because he wanted it read... KoKo Aug 2014 #11

So...The WHOLE WORLD has to Pay Up...because a bunch of Fool Neocons in USA Invaded Iraq? KoKo Aug 2014 #13

Thanks KoKo-- Jackpine Radical Aug 2014 #14

Agree..."solution has to ultimately come out of the region itself..." KoKo Aug 2014 #16

This is long... YvonneCa Aug 2014 #18

Thank you! n/t YvonneCa Aug 2014 #17

This will bankrupt us this time. Katashi_itto Aug 2014 #8

I'm pretty sure we won't handle this... YvonneCa Aug 2014 #12

He sounds like a salesman for the MIC and Iraq 3.0. Tierra_y_Libertad Aug 2014 #9

Worth reading fadedrose Aug 2014 #15

Be afraid awoke_in_2003 Aug 2014 #19