LaVar Hosting Jeopardy July 26-30 Stan Account 👁

“The perfect is the enemy of the good.”

It’s a continuum. There hasn’t been a single President in modern history that hasn’t had to engage in foreign conflict. The degree to which they try to do it responsibly is highly varied. Whatever you think the “good” alternative is doesn’t exist. Have some perspective.

I wouldn’t disagree with one word of that. But we’re talking about the ideal, which is for this place to have never existed at all, vs. the real, which is what do we do with it now that we’re stuck with it? The answer is to try to fix it. #44 was a decent move in that direction.

I think many would say it is un-fixable and we should hope for its demise and/or radical reconstruction. I'm more cautious about that because the only road to demise and most roads to radical reconstruction lead through chaos, and I think chaos always favors the powerful.

but anyway the point is a lot of folks say bc Obama put a smiling face on genocide, he impeded radicalization and actually slowed down process, basically bc he placated many marginalized people (through lies), marginalized ppl who could/should have been radicalized instead.