I know I'm a broken record on this, but it really is disturbing how every mass media outlet immediately transforms into a cliche-spouting groupthink factory the moment high-profile political figures die. All critical thinking, skepticism, and debate are essentially prohibited
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Panama was all bad. But w/ the Gulf War he got Security Council approval (and it was a textbook UN action: to roll back transborder aggression). And the UNSC approval was important to him; he said it was one reason he didn't go to Baghdad: http://mindfulresistance.net/2018/12/01/issue-52/#notesfrombob2 …
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I agree with Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, who voted against the war, wary that it would lead to a period of sustained and ultimately counterproductive US military involvement in the region, which it did -- killing lots of civilians in the process.
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I think the deep praise of his Presidential policy is a bit dumbfounded given several blunders he made. But I have no problem with praise of HWB as a man given his remarkable career of action and entrepreneurship in various forms whether you agreed with pol objectives or not.
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Forgot about Panama. That was true CIA-style policy.
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