By my count Carter, Ford, and Nixon all didn’t start any new wars. Not sure how much credit Nixon should get for that factoid but it’s true.
Biden #canceled the Afghan War, he gets to start one free war and he’s even.
Ukraine’s coming up
Syria yeah. But Trump did pretty much the same thing as Clinton. So I don’t see how that applies. If Clinton had drones he might not need bombs and missiles.
Clinton deployed soldiers on the ground to the Balkans.
Obama did a little droning and sent ground troops that saw a small amount of combat. The reason he gets credit is he did it first.
All ground troops Clinton sent to the former Yugoslavia were peacekeepers after hostilities had ended.
It’s also silly to just equate all wars/military actions. There was a genocide going on in the Balkans.
Afghanistan =!= Balkans =!= Iraq =!= Syria
Actually Glenn, I think you’ll find that the United States has not made a declaration of war since 1942. Chess and mate, good sir.
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Trump gets a pass because he merely escalated, not started. In reality, Trump was not the anti war President, either ideologically or in practice, so Glenn has to angle shoot to maintain the thin imagination that Trump was somehow an ideological break from anything.
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Just a smattering of hospital bombing
A wee bit of children killed
It’s fucking disgusting to talk about it like you did so please stop
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lol
I agree, which was my point in the bolded. Nixon was responsible for like a million deaths in SE Asia.
I hope you’re not accusing Glenn Greenwald of basing arguments on petty technicalities.
For the sake of historical completeness, although Obama did not bomb Assad’s forces, the US were covertly providing military assistance to their opponents via Timber Sycamore, which presumably counts as “getting involved” against Assad.
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https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1485755646511304710?s=20
There seems to be a challange on the play, let’s go upstairs for the ruling:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1429881508991488014?s=20
Flagrant hypocrisy, 10 yard penalty and loss of down.
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I mean I think it is pretty clear that Greenwald was in fact doing a parody of liberals during the Trump era, but Trump described the media as “the enemy of the people” and constantly falsely accused them of lying about matters of substance. Whereas Biden called someone stupid for asking a question that was, in fact, substance-free and stupid. Why am I even typing this?
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Of course, although Greenwald is typically ham fisted about it, as you point out. He’s not a satirist no matter how hard he tries. I mean he didn’t even tag Jim Acosta, you have to do it!
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Dude is the worst lol.
This seems aggressive, watevs.
https://twitter.com/davidrlurie/status/1499160152313901056
https://twitter.com/davidrlurie/status/1499160818197446659
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I can’t believe there are people who take him seriously lol