It's rich when white people complain about "identity politics", yet unable to see the GOP has engaged in identity politics immediately after LBJ signed The Civil Rights Act and women dared to demand to be treated as equals not subservient to men. The GOP's Southern Strategy was pure white identify politics.
It's rich when white people complain about "identity politics", yet unable to see the GOP has engaged in identity politics immediately after LBJ signed The Civil Rights Act and women dared to demand to be treated as equals not subservient to men. The GOP's Southern Strategy was pure white identify politics.
Inside the prelude to GW Bush's invasion of Iraq, more top Pentagon officials argued against the war, but overrode by military strategists aligned with neoconservatives. VP Cheney didn't listen to intelligence analysts who saw no evidence of Saddam Hussein having a nuclear weapon. It was arrogance that led President GW Bush, VP Cheney, DOD Secretary Rumsfeld & neocons to believe they could overthrow Hussein and Iraqis would live happily ever after. Maybe, if the war room had included diverse and highly competent women, Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian American with non-partisan perspectives, we would never had invaded Iraq.
As far as colleges and DEI censoring conservative professors and student speech, I have not seen widespread evidence of this claim. As someone who attended college at the height of anti-Vietnam war protests, I heard people make similar claims. College campuses are a hotbed of communists and radicals. Yet, I saw a small percentage of student protestors and most students were more concerned about their social lives. What I did see was many white middle class and affluent guys attending college and graduate school to avoid the draft & as soon as the war was over, they were suddenly anti-social spending and pro-tax cuts.
Yep. It’s worse than that Elizabeth. Both Eliot and eric worked in the bush administration before and after the Iraq invasion (and supported it after they left). Eric was like the number 2 (or 3) guy at state pushing it. He literally was in the room with the president going over war plans.
He was one of the men a family member described to me. This family member worked in the Pentagon and interacted frequently with Joint Chief of Staff. He advised his adult child to resign from the US Army rather than be sent to Iraq. His close friends inside the Pentagon knew the invasion of Iraq would be a disaster for the US and Iraq.
It's rich when white people complain about "identity politics", yet unable to see the GOP has engaged in identity politics immediately after LBJ signed The Civil Rights Act and women dared to demand to be treated as equals not subservient to men. The GOP's Southern Strategy was pure white identify politics.
Inside the prelude to GW Bush's invasion of Iraq, more top Pentagon officials argued against the war, but overrode by military strategists aligned with neoconservatives. VP Cheney didn't listen to intelligence analysts who saw no evidence of Saddam Hussein having a nuclear weapon. It was arrogance that led President GW Bush, VP Cheney, DOD Secretary Rumsfeld & neocons to believe they could overthrow Hussein and Iraqis would live happily ever after. Maybe, if the war room had included diverse and highly competent women, Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian American with non-partisan perspectives, we would never had invaded Iraq.
As far as colleges and DEI censoring conservative professors and student speech, I have not seen widespread evidence of this claim. As someone who attended college at the height of anti-Vietnam war protests, I heard people make similar claims. College campuses are a hotbed of communists and radicals. Yet, I saw a small percentage of student protestors and most students were more concerned about their social lives. What I did see was many white middle class and affluent guys attending college and graduate school to avoid the draft & as soon as the war was over, they were suddenly anti-social spending and pro-tax cuts.
Yep. It’s worse than that Elizabeth. Both Eliot and eric worked in the bush administration before and after the Iraq invasion (and supported it after they left). Eric was like the number 2 (or 3) guy at state pushing it. He literally was in the room with the president going over war plans.
He was one of the men a family member described to me. This family member worked in the Pentagon and interacted frequently with Joint Chief of Staff. He advised his adult child to resign from the US Army rather than be sent to Iraq. His close friends inside the Pentagon knew the invasion of Iraq would be a disaster for the US and Iraq.