Hey, I read a book! It was The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World, by Noam Chomsky and Nathan J. Robinson. This was a timely read, coming on the heels of the election, and the promises of the incoming administration to be less belligerent and promote peaceful resolutions to ongoing conflicts. I am not holding my breath. The book is worth a read. It will challenge any patriotic bones you might have, but that is a good thing! Certainly there are arguments to be made about the voracity of the books claims, but that is not what I do here. The larger details they provide are beyond refutation, and I was not willing to get anymore granule than that because the overarching theme of our nation’s foreign policy is what people are tired of. It is time for a change; sadly, I still think we will be waiting sometime for that to happen.
"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand."
- Bertrand Russell
https://www.gettysburgflag.com/history-of-american-wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
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Dear MAGA,
I know many of you are upset at Trump's pro-war picks. You expected him to be anti-war. I hate to tell you but your favorite 'independent media' hosts were lying to you the entire time. Here's Trump's 1st term foreign policy:
- increased drone strikes 432%
- 2,243 drone strikes in his first 2 years alone (more than 8 years of Obama)
- kept us in Iraq
- kept us in Afghanistan
- 330% increase in civilian deaths in Afghanistan
- bombed Syria twice
- bombed somalia
- occupied a third of Syria to "take the oil"
- Increased the military budget every year
- tried to coup Venezuela
- ripped up the Iran agreement
- armed Saudi Arabia as they did a genocide in Yemen and vetoed a bill to cut off the weapons
- dropped the 'mother of all bombs' on Afghanistan
• - hired John Bolton, Mike Pompeo & Gina Haspel (all insane neocon warmongers) and let them run foreign policy
- Pardoned black water war criminals
- signed pro-torture executive order
- his first military raid as president killed a little American girl
- haven't even included in this list what he SAYS ne wants in his 2nd term (war with Mexico, allow srael to annex the West Bank). Stop listening to scam artists who don't know the first thing about policy and only care about vibes.
