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Originally Posted by willravel
Someone "about to attack us" was how we got into Iraq in the first place. I'm surprised people still haven't learned from this. Imminent threat has been used as pretense to be the aggressor in war for thousands of years. It will stop being effective the second people see it for what it really is. But they likely won't.
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History shows no scarcity of so-called "false flag" incidents either. It's been a popular way to whip up domestic military sentiment from ancient Rome to the burning of the Reichstag to the Gulf of Tonkin to, some say, 9/11.
Human beings are easily manipulated. So we have to have people in power who we can trust to have our best interests at heart. Because there IS no objective view, from the level of a citizen. You're told what you're told and it may or may not be the truth. I think that THE single thing that has hurt the GOP is the perception that the current administration lies for its own goals.