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In reply to the discussion: Why should I endorse, or vote for, a President who signs this into law? [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)by the authorization of military force and the ensuing 10 years of recruiting terrorists with our wars, and everyone who was involved in all of that, including the ir-responsibility of a whole lot of Americans, and the political power of those whose every action has been designed to take this President down - all of that is meaningless, ir-relevant to this legislation and everything can be fixed by taking this President down. That's what I dispute. It's just mighty odd that this is always **ALL** about PO and Congress, 10 years of Congressional corruption, gets off without the slightest mention.
It's just interesting that those who love that nearly meaningless cliche about "the lesser of two evils" never seem to have anything to say about how actively (which is a distinct possibility in this anonymous place called the internet) or passively supporting the greater of two evils will not only not solve any of the problems they putatively care so deeply about, but, much more likely than supporting the lesser of two evils, WILL result in all of those problems getting much worse and HURTING many many more people.
You make your case very suspect by ignoring all of the facts and some relatively likely consequences of your proposed course of action. Whether you credit others with authenticity or not, the fact is that at least some people are trying to take all of that into account in figuring out what to do about NDAA.