Reply #69: "Mindless consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds." - A Einstein [View All]

[arendt]

What is your claim,e.g.that we should say to the U.S.:

our history is rife with slaughter, join our party
and we will continue it - only this time you will
not be on the losing side?

I just don't understand what tactical political
value there is in dissing the vast bulk of Americans
who are willfully or unwillfully clueless about
all the violence committed in their name.

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My intention is to break this thread out into one for
each topic. When we get to that point, you can try
to make a constructive suggestion about how we deal
with pre-emptive warfare with WMDs.

BTW - it used to be called Mutually Assured Destruction.
And it worked when the politicians actually understood
the stakes involved, instead of being rapture/jihad
raving suicidal lunatics.

arendt