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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: War Children [View all]malthaussen
(17,193 posts)68. In it for fun, or to keep from personally being affected...
... once any chance of their own participation in military adventures ended, they could be all for them without worry. Dunno about you, but in the lily-white working class school district I lived, there were more kids of the "moral majority" than otherwise: the only reason they were "left" at all was to get laid, get high, and keep out of Vietnam. No principles at all, really, so they could briefly ally with whatever group seemed most likely to get them what they wanted. And as with high-schoolers, so with politicians.
-- Mal
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I wonder how many of my brothers and sisters in arms will be dead because of PNAC mentality.
VulgarPoet
Mar 2016
#1
Hillary favors military solutions for foreign policy matters. Anyone voting for her needs to know
think
Mar 2016
#3
I’m curious how my friends who are supporting Hillary process the information in that e-mail
bigtree
Mar 2016
#17
"Hillary's experience" vs "Bernie's judgement" is an excellent way to frame this primary contest.
Scuba
Mar 2016
#18
Thanks. This is a primary reason why many Bernie supporters cannot, in good conscience,
Zorra
Mar 2016
#54
Unlike Obama, Sanders has done little to take advantage of HRC's vulnerability here
BeyondGeography
Mar 2016
#61