Kimmo
October 25, 2016, 3:54am
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nemomen:
When you laser focus on a few domains that virtually every president in US history has made many poor judgments in (foreign policy, business friendliness, transparency) it’s easy to make a lazy conflation and then draw an even lazier moral equivalence by dismissing a huge area of policy matters where there are vast differences.
I don’t think it’s too tinfoil to speculate that the areas of these supposed misjudgements is no accident; it was a president after all who coined the term ‘military-industrial complex’.
Cast your mind back to what old Smedley Butler had to say about it all.
Major General Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940), nicknamed the Maverick Marine, was a senior United States Marine Corps officer. During his 34-year career, he fought in the Philippine–American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Mexican Revolution,World War I, and the Banana Wars. At the time of his death, Butler was the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. By the end of his career, Butler had received sixteen medals, including five for heroism; he is the only Marine to be a...
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