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    So what 1990s did I miss? A 20% real-dollar cut in military spending, base closures, and most relevantly, a top-to-bottom…
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    • If your definition of "imperial client state" includes lowly Tunisia, then apparently every state on earth is one of our…
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    • And my complaint was about including that one in the list. Note that I did describe the narrative as "often…
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    • Saying that people shouldn't have to live under a government like that in Iran is something that anyone who purports…
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    • I think you're giving Egypt short shrift. Egypt just had free elections, in which parties that were brutally suppressed by…
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    • Ron Paul is not a racist, and saying that he is in the face of copious evidence to the contrary....…
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    • If they covered it with the time warranted, Santorum and Gingrich would be dropping out today. Your thesis gives way…
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    • Is it just me or is it disappointing that three years with a black president seems to have only emboldened…
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    • Hey, it's my two favorite fallacies about American foreign policy: Always betting on the wrong horse and using an act…
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    • Brave man, BooMan.  You wrote that the United States is doing something right by using coercion in international politics, on…
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    • The administration didn't have a "response" to Ben Ali's evacuation. Which is, indeed, quite a dramatic departure from our treatment…
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    • He's not about to challenge the basic imperial assumptions of US foreign policy, which is too bad, but even 23…
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    • Obama is currently using drone warfare in a half-dozen different countries. You can debate the morality or propriety (as Booman…
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    • The funny part is, you never hear about them praying for harm to come to the only people who Jesus…
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    • Exactly, BooMan.  If you want to ban abortion, that means you want to create the Uterus Police.  "Ma'am, we'd like…
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    • The two war strategy was a postwar fantasy of the pentagon that has been obsolete for at least 50 years.…
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    • Governing and running for office are two different things. Of course he going to transition into campaign mode.  I, for…
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    • BooMan, you're a big man for volunteering that about Libya.  You could have left it out of your list of…
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    • Nope, never prayed for anyone's death.  Yikes. I hope that some day they will realize the evil that they have…
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    • And because he can now be confident of winning the political fight.  The general public, and not just political geeks,…
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