Comments by "surely you joke, mein failüre" (@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531) on "Geraldo SHUTS DOWN Brian Kilmeade's War Mongering On Live TV" video.

@GeraldHarris-cf2zh As with the US wars against Iraq, Afghanistan, Grenada, Cuba, Viet Nam, North Korea, etc, there was and has never been any danger of those distant places making war on America in any big sense, such as sending aircraft carriers to soften us up, then landing troops on the beach in California. But few Americans realize this.
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@RP_Williams Oh no, it was stupid in the extreme to think that anything as complicated as a country could be reduced to the simplicity of falling dominoes. In the end, after the US left Viet Nam and the country went communist, guess what, the rest of southeast Asia did not fall like the dominoes of that dumb theory. I hope people are properly scandalized that they ever believed such hogwash in the first place.
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@RP_Williams Eastern Europe did not "fall" during/after - it was overrun by Soviet military might. No such happened in southeast Asia. Try a different comparison.
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@RP_Williams To be fair, I wasn't around then to smell the fresh propaganda in the news at the time. At the opening of the early-00s thing though I felt like the only sane person in the room, surrounded by gibbering idiots who said we had to go to war. They were as moved by propaganda as soap bubbles are by the breeze.
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@RP_Williams Unfortunately I was sarcastic and questioning almost as soon as I could talk. My dad had copies of all the letters he'd written to the draft board, explaining why he shouldn't go to fight - yet he supported sending other people there to die. Needless to say he's glued to FOXed Noise and Trump these days :(
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@RP_Williams Being able to contribute better from the safety of his desk, of course.
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@VMonkies Have you by chance read "Empire of Debt" by Wiggin & Bonner? The chapter entitled "MacNamara's War" is a work of art.
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