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In reply to the discussion: Presidents should be questioned and confronted, not idolized [View all]mrchips
(97 posts)By responding to my post that it was Raygun who sent stingers into Afghanistan. You had a purpose to insist that Carter was just as militant by saying he "initiated" the arming. The mujahideen got nowhere until they were able to knock helicopter gunships out of the sky. Sending small arms to Afghanistan was nothing like George Bush launching in invasion of Iraq which is what this is all about. False equivalencies are a very convenient way of blurring the truth. Democrats are consistently more reluctant to use military force. Rethuglicans are eager to show their machismo. You want to pretend you had no motive other than to correct what you thought was an inaccurate post, fine. I don't believe you. I believe your purpose was to say Carter was a les than clean president. I see all too often on this board a determined effort to criticize democrats when the real enemy of democracy is the right wing.