I tend to agree. That's why they pushed so hard for white people not to be racist. They destroyed the psychological mechanism protecting our society from outside threats. When you pathologize interest in one's own race/culture, its a lot like HIV except on societal terms. White people have every right to be proud of their cultures. It's how the nation was willing to acknowledge Al Qaeda existed. If 911 happened today I feel like a significant segment of society would say we deserved it, and fight any attempts at relation against a foreign threat.
If 911 happened today I feel like a significant segment of society would say we deserved it, and fight any attempts at relation against a foreign threat.
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Were you alive and sentient for 9/11? Because what you are describing is exactly what occurred.
Utterly fucking up in iraq afterwards was inexcusable though. As in I don't know anything and could have told you that disbanding the army and banning everyone who ever worked for the regime from any meaningful job would lead to a massive shitstorm.
Iraq wasn't responsible for 9-11, and that whole war was a fiasco that dragged on way too long. Tossing that aside, I still can't remember anyone from either political party, who was against the idea of going after Al Qaeda and Bin Laden. These days he'd be heralded as an "Austere religious scholar", and anyone who hated him would get accused of stirring up racism against Islam, the same way they accuse anyone who says Wuhan Flu or the Chinese virus.
Iraq wasn't responsible for 9-11, and that whole war was a fiasco that dragged on way too long.
You are right but there were still good reasons to push in Saddam's shit. If you follow JockoPodcast he has one that is called "The Unraveling". One of the first ones goes into the reasons for the Iraq war which convinced me.
Basically Saddam was a gigantic asshole with an international influence and leaving him there after gulf war 1 fundamentally weakened the US. The timing was an expenditure of political goodwill that was banked by 9/11 but if it didn't happen then then it would probably never happen.
It was the mistakes made after the invasion rolled over the regime that really fucked the dog.
There is nothing inherently wrong with racism or tribalism. It allows a group to remain protected from outside threats
I tend to agree. That's why they pushed so hard for white people not to be racist. They destroyed the psychological mechanism protecting our society from outside threats. When you pathologize interest in one's own race/culture, its a lot like HIV except on societal terms. White people have every right to be proud of their cultures. It's how the nation was willing to acknowledge Al Qaeda existed. If 911 happened today I feel like a significant segment of society would say we deserved it, and fight any attempts at relation against a foreign threat.
Were you alive and sentient for 9/11? Because what you are describing is exactly what occurred.
Utterly fucking up in iraq afterwards was inexcusable though. As in I don't know anything and could have told you that disbanding the army and banning everyone who ever worked for the regime from any meaningful job would lead to a massive shitstorm.
Iraq wasn't responsible for 9-11, and that whole war was a fiasco that dragged on way too long. Tossing that aside, I still can't remember anyone from either political party, who was against the idea of going after Al Qaeda and Bin Laden. These days he'd be heralded as an "Austere religious scholar", and anyone who hated him would get accused of stirring up racism against Islam, the same way they accuse anyone who says Wuhan Flu or the Chinese virus.
You are right but there were still good reasons to push in Saddam's shit. If you follow JockoPodcast he has one that is called "The Unraveling". One of the first ones goes into the reasons for the Iraq war which convinced me.
Basically Saddam was a gigantic asshole with an international influence and leaving him there after gulf war 1 fundamentally weakened the US. The timing was an expenditure of political goodwill that was banked by 9/11 but if it didn't happen then then it would probably never happen.
It was the mistakes made after the invasion rolled over the regime that really fucked the dog.
Define racism and tribalism.