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Robert MacKay's avatar

Listening to Public radio: they think this was a scam. When our National Security-Military makes a mistake we hear moaning. Now that Iran fails to land a glove on Israel-we hear-“it was a set up”. Damned if you do-damned if you don’t. And this while we still have to deal with Trump’s explanation. No unity. Many agendas.

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JohnCitizen (Adam Saxe)'s avatar

Spot-on. I was discussing w/ a buddy the marvel of Israel's missile defenses but we both came to the same point that when tech works and there's virtually no bloodshed, the ill-informed think war is a piece of cake and, ipso facto, all the warnings & concerns about Iran--or Russia or China--are overblown. Just excuses for the evil "military industrial complex." It's such drivel. The elite talking heads of the left-leaning type LOVE to malign "low information" voters mesmerized by Trump. Well, there are plenty of public radio types who have *zero* information when it comes to the nature of war & national security, but love to sprout their own conspiracy theories (i.e., it's the evil defense corporations, it's the evil "neocons" . . . examples of whom are always Jewish . . . playing into another conspiracy--it's Israel and the "Israel Lobby").

And, yes, then there's the MAGA approach to foreign affairs . . . which is just one incoherent reactionary temper-tantrum.

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