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originally posted by: DJW001
We have no more business meddling in West Asia than we did meddling in Southeast Asia.
Sadly, it reaches the point where one is waded in so deep in blood that it is easier to wade across than to return to the shore.
Our new President seems likely to stay the course. All he is doing now is making it impossible to explain his reasons.
That'd be a bummer and I'd lose my enthusiasm, but he has some kind of investment in keeping promises it seems.
What I see is a bunch of news ANALYSIS and not much reporting.
Most news "reports" sound more like editorials than actual REPORTS. I guess it makes for more entertainment in a sense, but it should be called what it is.
He's promised to destroy ISIS utterly and has asked to increase military spending, so you can let go of any illusions you have about him being a peacemaker.
You seem to have an awfully invested interest in being an apologist for the status quo. It's a recurring theme in your posts.
You talk about "common" sense as if it's COMMON in this country. People listen to these talking heads' OPINIONS and take them as "fact"
originally posted by: DJW001
It has been explained many times why there is no point engaging with you; you throw so much muck against the wall that it is impossible to figure out where to start, and when entry is finally found you dodge and deflect.
TV news is scripted, so what? In the old days you could see the news readers holding the script in their hands. TV news does not have time to research stories in depth, and they are dependent on visuals to keep their audience, or "market," engaged. Just because they sometimes use file footage, or a correspondent reports from the safety of a studio does not mean that the basic information they are conveying is false.
The onus us on us citizens to do our own research by going to multiple sources and using critical thinking. TV news is first and foremost entertainment.
You did at least finally concede that the 'news' is "Scripted".
Well who is writing the scripts?
If you read the entirety of my Double Feature, the build-up supplementals that go with it, and the rest of my "Preventing the Fourth Reich" series that this is a part of, you will find that gulf of a question answered in depth.
originally posted by: DJW001
There are parties that do not have America's best interests in mind who have been cultivating distrust in the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution, and the checks and balances that have prevented the return of tyranny up until now.
And I'm sure they appreciate your service. No one is shutting a free press down. The MSM is being called out for the propaganda arm they are. State run media w/ globalist philosophy as it were.
Now that the US has created Al Qaeda, and whether directly or indirectly (probably a whole lot of BOTH), and ISIS and Al Qaeda are burning down the Middle East, should they be left to run amok?
Overthrowing governments like Libya & Syria like Hillary and Obama did (using Al Qaeda and ISIS as paid mercs) doesn't even compare to going and cleaning up the evil dogs one unleashed.
Meanwhile a strong military isn't inherently militarism.
Only time will tell if Trump turns militaristic imperialist. Until then anything anyone can say to this is pure conjecture.