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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Jan 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted The Atlantic

      Um, my understanding of the last 60 years is that every time a modern army armed with cluster bombs & napalms has faced a militia (Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq) -- the modern army ended up eventually beating a retreat.https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1221827357276807169 …

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      The AtlanticVerified account @TheAtlantic
      The members of the team around Bernie Sanders "are about to experience what happens when a militia faces off in on an open field against a ruthless modern army armed with cluster bombs and napalm," warns @DavidFrum. "They will be shredded and torched." http://on.theatln.tc/zpzgCB9 
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    2. Ian Gillespie‏ @IanRGillespie 27 Jan 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Ugh. That historical analogy (while I realize it's not the point) is sort of a progressive fantasy. 1st, insurgencies that barely got off the ground are not the one's we give attention. 2nd, US installed govts govern Afghanistan & Iraq. Not clean wins, but hardly defeats.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Jan 2020
      Replying to @IanRGillespie

      Meh, the Americans are having a hard time holding even a foothold in those countries. Sooner or later the American presence will end.

      2 replies 0 retweets 17 likes
    4. Ian Gillespie‏ @IanRGillespie 27 Jan 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      The American presence was always meant to leave after installing a friendly govt. One can debate that on Iraq, but even there a permanent presence was hardly agreed upon among even the neocons much less all conservatives. It wasn't remotely the aim in Afghanistan.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Jan 2020
      Replying to @IanRGillespie

      McCain said USA would be in Iraq for centuries.

      10:01 AM - 27 Jan 2020
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        1. Ian Gillespie‏ @IanRGillespie 27 Jan 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Sure. One Senator - known as one of the most wildly hawkish people in all of American politics. If the standard for victory were that you didn't pursue the goals of the most ardent belligerents, every war short of genocide would be consider to have ended in retreat.

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