lol, what fucking airtight logic. Who the hell cares what his occupation was when he supported the war in Iraq? The claim that you asked for receipts of wasn't, "Glenn Greenwald, as an internationally known journalist and contributing writer for The Intercept, published op-eds in support of the Iraq war," it was simply that Greenwald supported the war at its outset. Did Greenwald support the war when it started? According to him and you, yes. The end.
I would hope you have known it was the Intercept before you opened the thread since the words "The Intercept" are in the title!
What? There's 5500 troops in Iraq and 8000 in Afghanistan. Pompeo was just in Iraq a few days ago
Here's the funny thing. The Intercept has been in bidness for five years. The scandal happened two years into operation. Their number of employees and editorial staff isn't meager, but the size and footprint of the operation comes nowhere close to either the Guardian or Der Spiegel, and one would reckon, editorial oversight. Remember that string of synagogue bomb threats in 2017? A good number of them were done by this same journalist they hemmed and hawed over before investigating and firing. Small world.
No you fucking don't. Your "responsibility" kills hundreds of thousands of people. So stay the fuck away, you war mongering people. Also lol about stability. You only do what you do to expend your narrow ass national and international economic interests and nothing more.
I honestly think this is mostly being instinctively against anything Trump say or does. Which is not the worst instinct in the world mind you, but one that leads to tragic conclusions in this particular case.
Supporting a useless war reluctantly is still supporting a useless war.
That was my first thought, but then I looked at the Afghanistan numbers. While I can sort of accept not understanding exactly what going on in Syria (especially with how poorly this has been reported), opposing withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2019 is fucking unacceptable in my book.
Is it
I think big part of it is that Obama supported the war as well. A whole lot of democrats stopped worrying about things like the illegal drone war when he was in office.
Allowing the Taliban to return is even more unacceptable.
At some point the US will leave and the Taliban will return, no one has any plan that has a realistic chance of preventing it. It sucks, but sending American soldiers to die in there is not gonna change it. Seriously, people have been dying there for years because no president want the fall of Saigon pictures on their watch and kinda hope the next one deal with that mess. Imagine dying for that goal.
I think Democratic voters generally care about not making the damage Bush inflicted via the stupid invasion any worse than necessary. Because empathy and all that. And that includes both the Kurdish people and the lack of enough troops sent to Afghanistan in the first place because Iraq siphoned the necessary resources.
How long have you been in a coma for? He moved to The Intercept eons ago.
Haven't followed him in years no (Although he hasn't been much relevant since Snowden anyway). Just glad to know that major pubs ended up putting him off for his bullshit and now he's stuck writing conservative propaganda.
I agree that the average Democratic voter doesn't want wars, which is why I'm so frustrated to see so many of them supporting horrible foriegn interventions when it's advocated by "their side".
Greenwald is a Russian apologist, anti-immigrant, white supremacist defending has-bin.
