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Re:Hong Kong mourns the end of its way of life by bsanr2 on Sunday September 06, 2020 @12:18PM (#24392383)
But the same generation was in power when we launched our twenty-year War on Terror, and the comparisons to Vietnam that started popping up a decade and a half ago didn't manifest in any sort of wariness to move forward and keep moving forward with our attempted "regime change." If anything, it's that which has changed our willingness to step forward militarily. The conclusion is that we spent our war capital on frivolous quagmires when real threats were looming but not being taken seriously.

See also: cointel on BLM while white supremacists plan and execute with freely. Team America: World Police reflecting our actual police.

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Re:Hong Kong mourns the end of its way of life by dbcurtis on Sunday September 06, 2020 @12:24PM (#24392436)
The war on terror was not about containing communism. It could not be labeled and dismissed as “anti-communist hysteria”
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Re:Hong Kong mourns the end of its way of life by srtjstjsj on Sunday September 06, 2020 @01:07PM (#24392813)
It was anti-Islamist hysteria. What's the difference?
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Re:Hong Kong mourns the end of its way of life by dbcurtis on Sunday September 06, 2020 @02:04PM (#24393290)
The difference is which generation the rhetoric triggers.
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Re:Hong Kong mourns the end of its way of life by bsanr2 on Monday September 07, 2020 @09:16AM (#24399215)
The victims of Western-backed dictators, American regime change campaigns, and the crushing poverty caused by austerity mandates, economic sanctions, and predatory international capital investment terms would like to have a word with you.

Also, victims of the Atlantic Slave Trade, anti-union riots, and lax labor safety law. I get that Mao is a high hurdle to pass but I think we've done it and then some.

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Re:Hong Kong mourns the end of its way of life by bsanr2 on Sunday September 06, 2020 @12:39PM (#24392570)
It was about extending capitalism (well, democracy morally and structurally enabling capitalistic integration of ME into the global market), and also an extension of Cold War jockeying, which was anti-communist (and arguably hysteria).
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