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Atman

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2. Hard to argue with this one.

Reply to grahamhgreen (Original post)

Tue Sep 16, 2014, 11:18 AM

Sep 2014

Last edited Tue Sep 16, 2014, 11:59 AM - Edit history (1)

But what the heck...the MIC is calling the shots, and sadly our POTUS is doomed by Congress and the media. If he does nothing, he's weak and ineffectual, and ISIL will lop off another head for Fox "News" viewers to be outraged about. Now that he's doing something, he'll be pilloried for continuing the Endless War Doctrine. It's lose-lose for him...the MIC knows this and will profit handsomely from it.

The rest of us lose, too.

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Chelsea Manning breaks silence to criticise Obama's Isis strategy [View all] grahamhgreen Sep 2014 OP

Her ideas make sense. Autumn Sep 2014 #1

Hard to argue with this one. Atman Sep 2014 #2

In my view, they are setting him up for an abuse if power impeachment if he doesn't get a new AUMF grahamhgreen Sep 2014 #3

They'd impeach him for not changing his undewear if they could figure out how. Atman Sep 2014 #4

I'm worried the war hawks in his cabinet are leading down a path to his grahamhgreen Sep 2014 #5