This language is directly from the Dick Cheney & Karl Rove playbook and script when they would attack Democrats in the Bush years who wanted to "cut and run" and leave the various Middle East wars. There's zero difference in rhetoric or mentality: "our enemies will not fear us." https://t.co/HJ7Lr7WRsW— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 20, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 December 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
Assad is bad imo
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Thursday, 20 December 2018 21:47 (five years ago) link
Yeah, but Iraqi Shia and Afghan crime lords were despicable allies. The YPG are cool.
― Sanpaku, Thursday, 20 December 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
Assad purposely bombed clinics run by Doctors Without Borders because they treated anyone who came to them, some of whom may have been combatants. Of course, all of the medical staff and most of the patients were non-combatants. So, yes, he is bad.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 20 December 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
he sure is, and doesn't appear to be going anywhere, as Nobel winner Obama himself said
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 December 2018 22:24 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/03/world/us-raid-syria-isis
Syria? ISIS? What the fuck?
― peace, man, Thursday, 3 February 2022 14:21 (two years ago) link