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Re:The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms... by Alex3917 on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @11:40AM (#15239326)
> At this point, is anybody surprised by this?

I mean it does seem weird that you have liberals cheerleading for funding a genocide, and completely losing their shit at Republicans for trying to stop it.

Re:The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms... by losteric on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @12:33PM (#15239915)
No, that's just the media inciting tribalism for profit.

People across the political spectrum are sick and tired of our absurdly expensive and destabilizing foreign wars and international policing.

Republican politicians are escalating the war. We've actually increased the number of lives and dollars being sent to this war since Trump came into office. None of the Republican governing factions are seriously opposed to the Middle Eastern war.

Democrat politicians aren't really trying to stop it either. Obama de-escalated relative to Bush, but there was never a serious push to withdraw. Some of the progressive governing factions are in favor of moving foreign war spending to domestic investments, but I don't really hear the drums beating for ending the war purely for the sake of it.

There's a disgusting discrepancy between voter priorities and politicians.

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Re:The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms... by Top19 on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @12:05PM (#15239622)
Your last words are something Bernard Knox, the famous classicist, encountered in the texts of Virgil while hiding in a bombed out villa in the Italian countryside during World War II.

"""After training as a parachutist, he fought with a special force organized by the O.S.S., the British and the Free French to coordinate elements of the French Resistance with advancing Allied troops after the Normandy invasion. He also instructed members of the French Maquis in the use of explosives.

The O.S.S. later sent him into northern Italy for an equally dangerous mission with the Italian underground, and it was there that he rekindled his passion for the classics. Holed up in an abandoned villa, he discovered a bound copy of Virgil and opened it to a section of the first Georgic that begins, “Here right and wrong are reversed; so many wars in the world, so many faces of evil.”

Professor Knox recalled, in “Essays Ancient and Modern,” “These lines, written some 30 years before the birth of Christ, expressed, more directly and passionately than any modern statement I knew of, the reality of the world I was living in: the shell-pocked, mine-infested fields, the shattered cities and the starving population of that Italy Virgil so loved, the misery of the whole world at war.”""

TRANSLATION: we've been here before, at least twice

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/books/17knox.html

Re:The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms... by notfromhere on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @11:57AM (#15239523)
oh please, save your hyperbolics. the US president went to bat for a group of white supremacists a couple weeks ago, so I think we have bigger problems than bored college kids and an overturned trashcan in Berkeley
Re:The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms... by Alex3917 on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @11:51AM (#15239466)
> Everyone disagreeing with them being silenced and called out as a bigot or racist.

Well the fact that antifa and all that stuff happened within a couple months of everyone donating to the ACLU is amusing on its own.