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Spitfire of ATJ

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19. Our biggest mistake has been to reject supporting Liberals in the Middle East....

Reply to seafan (Original post)

Sun Dec 6, 2015, 08:03 PM

Dec 2015

Example: If we had embraced the young people in Tahrir Square in Egypt.

They did NOT toss out Mubarak to install the Muslim Brotherhood. (Despite what Bill Maher thinks)

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Past CIA Directors: 'We can neither kill nor surveil our way out of terror.' [View all] seafan Dec 2015 OP

K&R LiberalArkie Dec 2015 #1

This Citizen Notes The Wise Insight - Maybe There Are No Moral Leaders - Simply Because cantbeserious Dec 2015 #2

1000% correct. nt hifiguy Dec 2015 #4

Yep, war is a racket. Correction: war is THE racket. nt valerief Dec 2015 #5

+1 tecelote Dec 2015 #7

any ideas how to do that? Fast Walker 52 Dec 2015 #16

there's no profit in morality Fast Walker 52 Dec 2015 #8

Is there profit to be made carla Dec 2015 #12

there are a lot of jobs that are higher on the moral scale, Fast Walker 52 Dec 2015 #15

big K & R... dhill926 Dec 2015 #3

Fuck the CIA.. They put us where we are today.. mountain grammy Dec 2015 #6

Indeed... Fast Walker 52 Dec 2015 #9

Exactly. nt Live and Learn Dec 2015 #10

But but but, trump said we can watch them all. onecaliberal Dec 2015 #11

One family has been there from the beginning, benefiting and so on from secret government. Octafish Dec 2015 #13

The aspens all turn at the same time... carla Dec 2015 #14

Prescott Bush was the CIA's bag man hifiguy Dec 2015 #17

3 or 4 times dpatbrown Dec 2015 #18

Our biggest mistake has been to reject supporting Liberals in the Middle East.... Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2015 #19