My mistake regarding medicare for all. I did hear him say he was medicare for all to be fair. But why is his military service equivalent to being an imperialist?
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the American military is an imperialist force
Not everyone who joins the military is an imperialist.
Don't forget he is also a careerist . Another bourgeois trait.
Bernie must be an imperialist because he supported the trillion dollar F-35 program.
it was lame, stupid and not funny.
no. it is not.
We need to have the strongest military in the world. Certainly Air Power that cannot be challenged.
That does not mean we use it like we are doing in Yemen.
We use military for Defence only.
I would support provoking Russia into a conflict though, who are actively attacking us.
Yikes
He is. Hes not a poor kid who didnt have other options. Hes a Harvard grad who had a cushy job.
Becoming an officer after having a cushy job makes you an imperialist? How about point to actual examples of imperialist ideas and policies that he’s mentioned?
By all accounts from what I've read his role in the military itself was (for the most part) fairly cushy as well. He was doing a lot of data/admin work for the most part. And he certainly doesn't seem to be particularly clinical or brutal when questioning US involvement in foreign wars etc.
You are seriously bonkers if you really think that.
i didn't know
pretty good.
You’d give Hillary a major hard on for talking dirty like this.
I Can see 'her' getting a hard on.
Seriously though, the US will just need to ramp up sanctions so hard till Putin's head pops.
He must be the grandson of Curtis LeMay.
impossible.
Coming from the UK.
hard on Hillary and Mayor Pete.
what a combo.
My mind is going all sort of places.
Afghanistan is an imperialist war. He went over there in 2014 for fecks sake. Hes not a naive kid who lost a family member on 9/11. He joined an imperialist occupying force for the purpose of advancing his political career.
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Any military can be used in the right way. ie. for defence only or in the wrong way as has happened in the US in recent decades.
We certainly cannot go unarmed can we?
Any military can be used in the right way. ie. for defence only or in the wrong way as has happened in the US in recent decades.
We certainly cannot go unarmed can we?
I'd say it extends beyond the last few decades...
true.
unfortunately.
Its not going to change much if we still keep kissing the arses of states like Israel and Saudi Arabia.
The US military is not capable of that.
He was a convoy driver (among a few other things). Not particularly cushy given the IED threat.
Wasn"t he an officer ? That's seems like grunt duty.
Yep...he apparently worked normal officer work as an Intel officer and also worked as a convoy driver and guard for his commander.
Shawshank Redemption 2: there has got to be a better way!
Five decades, really. Using few is acceptable in that sense.
The integrity of US involvement in the world wars is unquestionable. Korea is debatable and probably lands on the side of just considering how well South Korea is doing. Only from the late 1960s do things start to become morally bankrupt.
Mosaddegh 1953 Iran was a big one.
That's CIA, though. I was looking at it from a military perspective.
splitting hairs mate.
the US has been run by Big Money always.
They tell the government what to do and in turn the government uses the military and CIA or whatever to do their work.
That's why I say, its the government that needs to be changed.
Really for the People. Not for Big Business.
By that standard a whole lot of fecking nations would need to attack the US
Something like 5 a day with the current commander in chief.By that standard a whole lot of fecking nations would need to attack the US
..if they can.
Goes back to my belief we need to have
a government that serves the people.
Of course they can't, but neither can the US seriously attack Russia (mutually assured destruction isn't a thing of the past even if history books treat it as such).
Simultaneously claiming the US aren't imperialists and justifying the US's actions with it's very empire is kind of confusing to outsiders though...
It's in US voters hands to give themselves a government that serves them.
I feel like the CIA does what it wants and some things the government asks.
The rise of the MIC in the 60s really changed things.
The CIA are the dirty tricks brigade.
The Doctrine of Plausible Deniability gives many people in leadership an Out.
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