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    It was a hell of a lot better for the average American than the  Soviets winning the Cold War. Tell…
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    • So, once again, what does any of that have to do with your contention that the United States does not…
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    • I got it just fine: you think that survival-of-the-fittest, screw-you-I-got-mine is a perfectly legitimate moral stance to take towards people…
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    • The Randian is refusing help to a weaker member of his own society. So, you're writing Indians out of your…
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    • Wow, what a ass-kicking. Nick, just because you can keep typing "nuh-uh" doesn't make the lies that have been pointed…
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    • So you weren't already rich when you started the business, is that what you're telling us? They myth, since you…
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    • Frankly, I don't understand why Romney chose him at all You could say the same thing about why the primary…
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    • Well, there's always Dennis Kucinich.
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    • And then instead of sending 3 million personnel to do a proper occupation, we sent Paul Bremer, who couldn't get…
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    • That's all correct. But without at least a credible stick behind the carrots, those discussions at regional security organizations are…
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    • It is potential destabilization, in the sense used in international relations.  Nuclear weapons, by contrast, by raising the cost of…
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    • I mean both that would-be candidates have no right to be on the ballot, and that voters have no right…
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    • I don't find the decontextualized contrast between FDR and Truman compelling.  When FDR died, the Soviet Union had been our…
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    • Well, prior to Sarkozy, there was the Arab League pushing for intervention. Libya really was a perfect storm, in terms…
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    • Iraq 2003.  In the conventional ground war phase of the operation, it was like one of those Mike Tyson fights…
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    • Another way to think about this question is, do we want relations between nations to be built around each one…
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    • Historians have now had a look at the documents and debates that went on during the 1940s on both the…
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    • That's a very silly article about American foreign policy since World War II. The central plank of that policy was…
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    • I think you forgot something our military can do exceedingly well - win a conventional ground war against any imaginable…
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    • Interesting thought, but we weren't exactly leading the charge in Libya - more like, we went along with our allies…
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