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    Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Feb 3
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    Margaret Brennan asked Trump why he hasn't reconsidered withdrawing from Syria given reports that ISIS is supposedly still active. Journalists' questions to Trump always have a hawkish premise, i.e. "staying in Syria is presumptively sensible, leaving is presumptively irrational"

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      1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Feb 3
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        About negotiations to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, Brennan asks: "Can you trust the Taliban?" then brings up 9/11 and warns about a "resurgence" of Al Qaeda. Her skepticism is reserved for efforts to withdraw, not for the wisdom of the deployments themselves.

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      1. theotherserge‏ @theotherserge Feb 3
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        ~two decades of this sh1t and I’m of the opinion that, fundamentally, the press is pro-war and pro-interventionism.

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      2. #HandsOffVenezuela New Paris-ite  ⏳‏ @NewParisite Feb 3
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        ISIS as a brand will be used in perpetuity: "the post-9/11 playbook has been to push indefinite military deployments in forever wars based on the mere *possibility* that a terror threat persists *somewhere* out there."

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      3. #HandsOffVenezuela New Paris-ite  ⏳‏ @NewParisite Feb 3
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        USA cannot invade and permanently occupy every nation where extremists exist. How Pompeo parsed the reason to withdraw: "U.S. mission was to push out Islamic State (the Caliphate--country)>" or DNI "ISIS has lost "99.5%+" [of territory] "... a couple of weeks, it will be 100%."

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      2. Resister Sister‏ @evyraes79 Feb 3
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        Maybe she was just drawing attention to the fact that his hand picked security advisors are against the withdrawal! As are all of his “generals”.

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      3. Nico Parisi 🇺🇸‏ @nicopico5 Feb 3
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        Both are true. His point was the journalists had an obvious bias in one particular policy preference.

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      1. andreytheman‏ @rubcov35 Feb 3
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        Just curious - what's the legal basis for US troops being in Syria? Government hasn't invite them, the UN has never approved that? Oh yeah - Americans invoke law violations only to blame Russians. Freaking hipocrats

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      1. Thomas Hackney‏ @HackneyContact Feb 3
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        Obama/Clinton invaded that sovereign country, violating int'l rule #1. Besides, we need the money to protect our own sovereignty by building the wall, err, steel fence, electrified & with barbed wire. Let's see them climb that.

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      1. Cherie Johnson‏ @Emeraldlight11 Feb 4
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        Neo-cons and military industrial complex can't stand the idea they won't have as many people to murder

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      2. Mr. Japen‏ @MrJapen Feb 3
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        Premise: ISIS has been defeated. Conclusion: the US should leave Syria. New information: ISIS has not been defeated Logical followup question: should the US reconsider leaving Syria because evidence appears to contradict the underlying premise for the withdrawal?

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        I sincerely wish you had the opportunity to interview him.

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      1. Awakened Shinobi‏ @BrandonHathaw12 Feb 3
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        Is she related in any way to John Brennan? Inquiring minds...

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      1. Corey Graham‏ @corey_gman Feb 3
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        I'd rather journalists ask outright abrasive questions than to ask pseudo-objective questions designed to alienate opposing views by manipulating the Overton Window.

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      1. Phillygirl74‏ @Phillygirl741 Feb 3
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        yep.. all the commentators but a few are war hawks. Unbelievable. Dems, and republicans.

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      1. Sasquatch‏ @Carpophores Feb 3
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        Journalists questions to Trump have to do with the opposite of whatever Trump wants to do. Has nothing to do with Hawkishness - Unless you mean Hawkish on Trump.

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