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    1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 2 Dec 2018
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      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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    2. Robert Wright‏ @robertwrighter 2 Dec 2018
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      Trump has accentuated this tendency in cases like GHWB and McCain, because the narrative becomes how un-Trump they are. But, yes, it's long been a pretty pronounced tendency for highly prominent politicians in general.

      1 reply 2 retweets 23 likes
    3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 2 Dec 2018
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      Yup:https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1069054765789847552 …

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      Michael TraceyVerified account @mtracey
      Unless the subtext wasn’t obvious: HW Bush’s illustrious career as a CIA chief, party insider, etc. makes him the consummate “institutionalist,” which is thought to be a rebuke of Trump, who has destroyed all institutions or something. That’s why the coverage is extra glowing
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    4. Robert Wright‏ @robertwrighter 2 Dec 2018
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      There's also the contrast in temperament, courtesy, etc. It really is a stark contrast, all told, and I do much prefer the GHWB model to the Trump model. Bush's foreign policy was also, as presidents' foreign policies go, non-horrible (way better than his son's, e.g.).

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    5. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 2 Dec 2018
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      I take serious issue with the assumption (widely expressed without challenge over the past two days) that GHWB's foreign policy was an unmitigated "success," and must now be valorized by all right-minded citizens. Especially re: the Gulf War and Panama.

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    6. Robert Wright‏ @robertwrighter 2 Dec 2018
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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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      Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 2 Dec 2018
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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.

      6:05 PM - 2 Dec 2018
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        2. Robert Wright‏ @robertwrighter 2 Dec 2018
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          Yeah, definitely some bad consequences (e.g. troops left in KSA driving bin Laden over the edge). But if we'd stuck w/ the insistence on UNSC backing for wars, we'd be in much better shape: No Iraq '03; no Libya regime change (as distinguished from the original mission there) etc

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        3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 2 Dec 2018
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          Point is the bad consequences were really bad, arguably catastrophically bad, and you wouldn't know it judging from the lazy mythological version being foisted on the public right now.

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        1. Jeff Curtis‏ @Jazzy_JAC 2 Dec 2018
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          That and babies being thrown from incubators

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