US rapidly approaching what people in the armed forces mockingly call the plan Z. Riots will happen but there will be no major civil war face-off. Think whatever you like about Pentagon, there are many people in there who want to crush any hint of confederacy with spiked boots.
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Pentagon: You think you are a libertarian or a gun-wielding texan pretending you participated in WWII, you haven't seen our Union arsenal.
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US military has spent decades now perfecting counterinsurgency and social control tactics in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. Just as in France during the Algiers crises, these tactics tend to come home to roost.
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They are on the top of their game. They used to use sordid means but as the time passed they managed forged alliances even though under the pressure of crazy presidents and tyrants.
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Naval Academy at this point is populated not by white boys but ethnic cadets.
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When I went there, who do you think talked to me? People from Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan.
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Recruiters always target those left behind, those who go to school in poor neighborhoods. They know lots of these people can't turn down the benefits. You look at polls of enlisted troops, they like Bernie Sanders even more than Trump. Only the brass is steadfastly conservative
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You tell me. I said from the beginning, thank you but I'm just a boring philosopher, nevertheless I got that infamous golden compass.
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I go to the auditorium, they're playing death metal on the high volume. I give my talk and then comes the dean. He has a prayer bump or what we Iranians associate with the islamic ministry of intelligence and government rats. He talks about the great Islam 
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what is this? Next Soderberg movie?
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