The withdrawals from Syria/Afghanistan are an instance when Trump really is acting directly counter to the interests of “the establishment,” and the media has no idea how to cover it without echoing the failed establishment ideology of interventionismhttps://medium.com/@mtracey/notes-on-the-withdrawals-961fdcb5b454 …
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Plus the consequences are always framed as caused by the withdrawal instead of the intervention in the first place
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Wouldn't matter as they always have some sort of nebulous boogie man problem that needs dealing with.
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I was skeptical at first but you
@KyleKulinski and@ggreenwald have been doing this longer than me. Who have we killed in the name of counter terrorism, either on purpose or by accident. Do we even have any idea?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Nor has there ever been a burden of the pro war crowd to explain why it’s okay to violate international laws to achieve its desired outcomes.
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I've seen two Rand Paul interviews on the Syria question, one with Margaret Brennan & the other with Jake Tapper. In both instances it looked like 2 aggressive prosecutors grilling a man suspected of a serious crime (Tapper wasn't quite as bad as Brennan). 1/2
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It seems like the default position has to be perpetual war everywhere forever, and you're expected to be a modern day combination of Demosthenes & Cicero to debate people out of it. It's ridiculous. 2/2
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Well, to this point it's because the establishment position of "Preventing ISIS" is pretty well known.
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All of cable news is framing. No investigative journalism. No hard hitting interviews. Just framing the stories of the day. The complaint used to be that they’re giving people the framing they want. Now it’s that the framing is relentlessly pro-establishment.
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And this is why i thought it was clever for Trump to not make a case for withdrawal. It's those opposing who have to make a case. And they cannot.
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War becomes a good thing when Trump is against it
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It’s similar to when JINOs call tax cuts government spending w/out justifying why it’s the govts money in the first place.
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