Comments by "Stevie" (@matthewhorizon6050) on "The Left Calling for Violence | Joe Rogan u0026 Sam Harris" video.

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  6. @b1bbs g0t h4nds,  I agree with the American public being lied to about the factors surrounding our involvement w the Gulf War. Charles Pierce wrote a very revealing piece on the deceptive propaganda spewed by John McCain and other high ranking government officials in his book "Idiot America: how stupidity became a virtual in the land of the free." Never do I find myself stuck on the idea of our government not bullshitting us, regularly. However, I'm also not obsessively motivated to embrace every single conspiracy theory that unilaterally designates our nation as an evil empire. We've done more today in reducing widespread starvation and modernising underdeveloped countries that in any other point in recorded history. Sure, we have become the international police and not always made the wisest chioses with regard to our dealings in the Middle East, but we've also done some good. That region of the world has been in turmoil for thousands of yrs and they've engaged in war ENDLESSLY (we are not the primary cause of that). Has there ever been a time when they were at peace? My personal belief is that they've failed to trim the idiological fat from their religious indoctrination, because geographically, it's virtually an uninhabitable terrain and the people of that world our condemned to being oppressed because no one gives a fuck about them. God is all they have and that higher power has taught them to blame the West. Gtanted, their land's rich oil has exacerbated the greedy motives of the West, but their tyrannical government have been willing participants in this avarice. When the western world moves closer to solar, wind and hydro, they will slip slowly into famine and genocide actions. That place is a fuckin he'll hole and I genuinly have empathy for the people who are going to inevitable experience this horrific event. And yes, we opened Pandora's box by toppling their dictators. But I don't think that the the intention was to release a jihadists terrorism movement upon the world. We did foresee what would manifest if our efforts to convert these wastelands into democratic governments. WE FUCKED UP BIG TIME! Nevertheless, it wasn't a deliberately calculated maneuver.
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