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TwilightGardener

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5. Um, I don't think so. Most Americans only started paying attention to Iraq

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #3)

Sun Sep 28, 2014, 11:27 AM

Sep 2014

with the Yazidi genocide threat and the beheadings--what you see when America supports airstrikes is mostly anger. Americans are concerned about terrorism, but mostly believe terrorists simply need a-killin', and we're the ones to do it--at least in Iraq, since we kind of own that. There really is nothing cowardly about Americans. I don't think anyone else in the world would agree with your assessment.

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America has enshrined in its national security doctrine a right to use force at its own discretion. [View all] Fred Sanders Sep 2014 OP

What is this weird recurring theme of yours that Americans are "cowering in fear"? TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #1

American fear is subliminal, it creates the basis of war, and the military will deliver us from the Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #3

Um, I don't think so. Most Americans only started paying attention to Iraq TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #5

My paternal grandmother used to say malaise Sep 2014 #2

Having hundreds of military bases throughout the world proves your point...when someone, Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #4