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Natch.
Doremus
(7,261 posts)abqtommy
(14,118 posts)Nexus2
(1,261 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,425 posts)leftstreet
(36,107 posts)I've seen tweets from neocons like Liz Cheney chest pounding about the Afghanistan failure as a"Biden/Trump" failure
They're posturing for a takeover from the TrumpHumping wing, and positioning against the Democrats, so it's like a twofer for them
weird stuff
Justice matters.
(6,928 posts)WHITT
(2,868 posts)is your friend.
Kid Berwyn
(14,897 posts)As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of The Times and pushed them into the pneumatic tube. Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames.
What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the pneumatic tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs -- to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place. The largest section of the Records Department, far larger than the one on which Winston worked, consisted simply of persons whose duty it was to track down and collect all copies of books, newspapers, and other documents which had been superseded and were due for destruction. A number of The Times which might, because of changes in political alignment, or mistaken prophecies uttered by Big Brother, have been rewritten a dozen times still stood on the files bearing its original date, and no other copy existed to contradict it. Books, also, were recalled and rewritten again and again, and were invariably reissued without any admission that any alteration had been made. Even the written instructions which Winston received, and which he invariably got rid of as soon as he had dealt with them, never stated or implied that an act of forgery was to be committed: always the reference was to slips, errors, misprints, or misquotations which it was necessary to put right in the interests of accuracy.
http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/3.html
Mickju
(1,803 posts)Ohioboy
(3,240 posts)We read it in high school, but I needed to read it again, especially now.
demmiblue
(36,845 posts)blueseas
(11,575 posts)That way it will get recommened and hopefully be on the greatest page. - Least you could do
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,146 posts)Jon King
(1,910 posts)Biden spent his first month ripping up as many Trump policies as possible. So he obviously thought this withdrawal was a good plan. The deal with the Taliban had all sorts of conditions, it would have been easy to delay the withdrawal.
Both Trump and Biden administrations thought this was a decent plan.
Dan
(3,554 posts)Regardless of what Biden thought.
hadEnuf
(2,189 posts)The GQP is blaming Biden but the deal squarely started with Trump and Biden inherited it.
Trump owns this. Just another nugget from his reign of total negligence and incompetence.
lindysalsagal
(20,680 posts)allow for the safest evacuation. That might have been to just keep on the course of the previous plan, regardless of the details or the crafters. Everything in the military is incredibly layered and inter-dependent, so, it all takes time to set the dominoes in motion. Stopping some areas can't work unless all the other moving parts are ready. Likewise, starting something new would take even more time.
So, if the generals said, "This is your safest, quickest move," Biden cares enough about the troops (unlike the GQP) that he'll use that plan, even if someone else gets credit. That's a patriot, not an egotistical child-wanna-be-faker.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)SergeStorms
(19,200 posts)Still.
Little Donnie Dumb-shit can never so anything wrong.
The question is, what did he ever do that was right?
We'll be cleaning up Trump/republican messes for decades.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)look back & see every time these clown's get power , they jack shit up ! they are not conservatives, they are a complete clusterfuck & pourly educated mess . donny said he would take the republican party down if he lost , guess what , now they got a party of nothing . looking foward to "LET THE INDICTMENT 'S FLY " .
JHB
(37,159 posts)Airbrushing inconvenient facts from the historical record.
Rebl2
(13,498 posts)Already out there. To late.