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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by Terr_ on Friday August 07, 2020 @05:32AM (#24080082)
"I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."

-- Vice President Dick Cheney, 2005-06-20

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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by ahmedalsudani on Friday August 07, 2020 @08:06AM (#24080989)
Cheney is

1. A thoroughly mendacious character 2. A moron

A lot of people ascribe malice to him, but it’s clear as day that he was in over his head with the entire project. Basically 0 of his goals have been achieved 17 years in.

So I would say that while the appearance of competent war games was there, it was a charade.

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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by mellow2020 on Friday August 07, 2020 @09:34AM (#24081605)
He was involved in a war of aggression, and his company made a bit of money both for destruction and rebuiling, did it not? And we can't even begin to guess how many "buddies" profited. At any rate, he's not in jail, and I think that is way too much success than is acceptable. He may be a moron, he certainly is a fool, but then what does that say about the ~300 million people in whose name he did his crimes, to live happily and smugly ever after?
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