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Hortensis

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2. Amazing is people summarily dismissing the explanations of
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 06:58 PM
Mar 2016

the planet's foremost expert in our actions. Tell me, how do you feel about Europe's role in what happened in Libya. They did push, and push, and push for US to get in there and stop the genocide, after all. Any role? Should they have done something? They're a half hour away across the water, after all.

Many posts here on the general theme of an evil America destroying a peaceful, pastoral, prosperous world out of our despicable greed and stupidity remind me of a statement about the differences between the far right and the far left. The article was more psycho- than political, so I moved on but I remember this generality: Extremists on the right hate everyone who isn't like them. Extremists on the left hate themselves.

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