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Meteor Man

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7. War Is A Criminal Enterprise

Sat Mar 26, 2016, 10:28 AM

Mar 2016

A quote attributed to General Butler, [link:http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/major-general-smedley-butler]

The military is a great hammer, but not every problem is a nail.

The only solutions to Middle East conflicts are OOTW, Operations Other Than War, which Gen. Zinni effectively implemented in saving the Kurds from genocide. http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-399-15176-7]

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What should the US policy be re: intervention in the ME? [View all] Nichevo11 Mar 2016 OP

Welllll EdwardBernays Mar 2016 #1

I think a problem with "stop arming dictators" Nichevo11 Mar 2016 #3

Sure sure EdwardBernays Mar 2016 #5

War does not fix things, it breaks them. bemildred Mar 2016 #2

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Afghanistan has been at war for decades, you are making my point. bemildred Mar 2016 #11

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Right, we should do nothing, We should butt out, or work incrementally. bemildred Mar 2016 #15

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Much more importantly to the Bushes than blowing up ancient & magnificent Buddhas or anything else Kip Humphrey Mar 2016 #26

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The Google is your friend... Kip Humphrey Mar 2016 #29

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No, you walk forward with me in time to today. bemildred Mar 2016 #38

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You can't "stay out of" a place you have been since WWII. GreatGazoo Mar 2016 #4

War Is A Criminal Enterprise Meteor Man Mar 2016 #7

Dammit! Meteor Man Mar 2016 #9

We should leave those poor people alone. Scuba Mar 2016 #8

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yeah, we wildly flounder from "they're just mini-Americans!" to "foreign fiends!" very fast MisterP Mar 2016 #16

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the problem is we're almost incapable of treating any of these factions as real entities MisterP Mar 2016 #18

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well clearly one opium-fuelled group of mercs was clearly different from the other opium- MisterP Mar 2016 #41

What we've been doing... TipTok Mar 2016 #12

Deftly applying that touch at just the right moment requires a good deal of waiting at times. bemildred Mar 2016 #13

It takes a lot of preparatory work... TipTok Mar 2016 #21

Yes. bemildred Mar 2016 #36

How about we just quit deliberately stirring the shit so we can KentuckyWoman Mar 2016 #19

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Agree with you except the 500 years to evolve. Their society jwirr Mar 2016 #24

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I will hold out hope also because these wars since God only jwirr Mar 2016 #30

Allow me to quote the Republican deficit-hawks... Bigmack Mar 2016 #28

We need to quit supporting Saudi Arabia. Odin2005 Mar 2016 #31

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Very complicated -- and it does seem that there have never been good options karynnj Mar 2016 #32

We need to stay out of that mess liberalfromaustin21 Mar 2016 #35

Our "help" usually has the same effect as throwing kerosene on fire. Tierra_y_Libertad Mar 2016 #37

I think the best thing we could have done after September 11th was to just step away from the ME Victor_c3 Mar 2016 #42

Fix what we broke by nationalizing the treasonous oil company's assets, Mc Mike Mar 2016 #43