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A symbol of the propaganda that makes it all work.

 

Decades after the lessons of Vietnam, it feels like the people who run the Pentagon specialize in undeclared/unwon wars.

Both major parties are good with it.

 

Both major parties are good with a giant, wasteful and ineffective US Dept. of Homeland Security.

The US Dept. of Homeland Security was established in 2002. This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US.

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Both major parties are OK with federal prohibition of alcohol and tobacco for adults age 18-20.

No such thing the day I graduated from high school.

That was before decades of military operations for your freedoms.

 

Both major parties are good with elected officials and high level DOD civilians who speak of the US Armed Forces as if they function as some sort of giant civil rights organization by participating in decades of undeclared/unwon wars in distant lands.

More Discussion Please

Both major parties tell us The Troops are in distant lands to defend American rights and freedoms.

CNN Nov 11, 2023

Biden honors Americans who ‘stood on the front lines of freedom’ in Veterans Day remarks

Sorry, no newspeople available to ask:

Mr President,

Going back to the 1990 Operation Desert Shield,

How would American freedoms today be any different if US troops were never sent to Iraq?

 

The Young Turks

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