Very interesting too that the one area in which our divided "polarized" government comes together to check Trump is when he attempts to limit American exposure to foreign wars.
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I don't think a policy of abandoning either Kurds or Afghans to a grisly fate is moral, but I believe it is instructive to see these shibboleths of the US establishment so clearly on display. Impeachment may fail, but both parties will unite around the need for permanent war
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The truly brave thing for the United States to do would be to offer immigrant visas to populations in danger when it winds down its military commitments. We owe it to people who fought with us
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The Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act in 1975 was too little, too late, but this flawed piece of legislation could serve as a model. The US benefitted immensely from what it thought was a grudging act of charityhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indochina_Migration_and_Refugee_Assistance_Act …
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Tying military involvement abroad to waves of legal immigration would also have a salutary effect on Republican hawkishness. We'd either get our old isolationist Republican party back, or get the globalist one back, not the nativist status quo
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It’s just rhetoric to appeal to Trump’s dislike of appearing weak.
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There is a way to withdraw from Syria that isnt low level negotiations in good faith with the party that had been helping you, encourage them to lower defenses, and then have your president double-cross them. That’s not done for the purpose of ‘limiting exposure to foreign war’…
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There I wholeheartedly agree with you
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Although I tend to agree, calling Russia a “regional power” is a bit of a stretch, no?
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http://CommonDreams.org seem to have articulated it very well:https://twitter.com/mithaldu/status/1181340181791694849 …
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