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In reply to the discussion: American Foreign Policy – Have Our War Lovers Learned Anything? [View all]Catherina
(35,568 posts)12. Except we don't even call them wars anymore
since that would bind us to certain structural conventions like the Geneva Conv.
Orwell himself would be shocked at how devious the double-speak is.
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Actually, the founding of the CIA in 1947 would have been a good place to start. nt.
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#23
If you're going to 'argue' that we should never have gone into Iraq, no one will participate.
randome
Feb 2013
#50
There aren't many, that's for sure. But nothing is ever achieved by doing nothing.
randome
Feb 2013
#66
Yes, before the invasion, Iraqi women were some of the freest in the Arab world
Lydia Leftcoast
Feb 2013
#58
It's hard work, creating more "terrorists" than you are vaporizing with drones ~nt
99th_Monkey
Feb 2013
#32
Armed with the moral authority bequeathed by God Almighty himself, America, after WWII, thwarted the
indepat
Feb 2013
#22
The name of my heroic eldest 1st cousin, whom I practically worshiped as a young lad, is listed on
indepat
Feb 2013
#42
I used to work with Bill. Glad to see he's still kickin' and as ornery as ever.
Comrade Grumpy
Feb 2013
#40
+1. That's a big part of the script for sure ~ "Oh, that is all well and good..."
Zorra
Feb 2013
#78