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Thread: World War 3
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02-12-2015 #11
Re: World War 3
I think they help...but we're all just fooling ourselves if we think , in this day and age, that airstrikes alone will defeat a poison like this. This enemy is mobile...it recruits from an endless trough and operates under no rules what-so-ever.
Good intelligence will help (and so will surgical drone strikes)...but some type of 'boots on the ground' is almost inevitable.
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02-12-2015 #12
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02-13-2015 #13
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Re: World War 3
Hitchens was a bright guy and for most of his life aligned with the left. Towards the end of his life he was much more militaristic, so it's not all that easy to assign a political affiliation to him. Also, he isn't an authority whose wisdom should be considered infallible. He opposed Desert Storm but supported the 2003 invasion. When asked what he thought about his previous support of Desert Storm he said and I paraphrase, "I haven't repudiated those views but I no longer hold to them." However he wants to explain it, I can't understand opposition to the former and strenuous support of the latter war.
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02-14-2015 #14
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02-15-2015 #15
Re: World War 3
Hitchens is the go to guy for any right winger who wants to use an argument by a liberal against liberals. But as broncofan points out, his opinions don't exactly line up with liberal thought down the line.
It's interesting that dreamon adopts the opinion of one man about Jimmy Carter's culpability for wars that were 30 years past his presidency, as his own. I kinda doubt dreamon would be comfortable adopting all of Hitchens' dogma. So I'm guessing he sort of cherry picked this one.
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04-29-2015 #16
Re: World War 3
repeant yourself
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