The Pilot hasn’t picked it up yet, but this will do.
NBC: Trump fires John Bolton as national security adviser
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I very seldom have anything good to say about Mr. Trump but firing Mr. Bolton is a good decision. Hopefully, the administration will be able to undo some of the damage he has done, especially with regard to his warmongering against Iran. Maybe, just maybe, we can now avoid a second disastrous and unwinnable war under the flag of the New American Century.
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Bolton was the classic neo-con who wanted to send our troops to war with a half dozen nations for regime change even after the total fiasco in Iraq. He didn’t give hoot who died so long as he wasn’t in danger himself.
Last night at the end of the PBS Newshour, they posted names and photos of those who died recently serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. There were 16.
All young men, most in their early 20’s. Hard to watch. I could feel a tightening of the throat as the faces appeared. From both sorrow and anger.
We can thank neo-cons and other chickenhawks who lied and plotted to get us into the Middle East while our country was still in shock over 9/11.
Good riddance to another SOB in that toxic gang from the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld era.
And that is how I really feel.
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Trump is crazy. Bolton is certifiable. Trump is a little less crazy today.
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Good riddance.
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Sometimes I can remember a quote but can’t remember the source, but one that applies to Afghanistan is the observation that ‘In Europe, you win wars by inflicting unacceptable losses on the enemy, in Asia you win wars by anihilating the enemy.’
That is where we went wrong in Afghanistan, we just weren’t brutal enough. The Soviets weren’t brutal enough, and we could never keep up with them, so we should have known. That’s not a bad thing, I don’t want us to be that brutal, but we should act with acceptance that we just don’t have it in us to win in Afghanistan.
What we should have done was to go in and kill the people who needed killing, along with those who sheltered them, break all the useful infrastructure as punishment for allowing terrorists to operate from there, and then leave
Go in, kill people and break things AND THEN LEAVE. Don’t stay there and try to remake the place in our image.
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I REALLY want to push back on your post, but I think it would have saved lives and sent a message: a message that NEEDED sending.
There is a time and place for reacting to barbarism with civility and this wasn’t it. You don’t discuss Marquess of Queensberry rules in a knife fight.
The “X” factor in this thinking is Pakistan’s potential reaction….
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Well, not called the “graveyard of empires” for naught. A large army cannot be sustained and a small one will be slaughtered.
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Compliments of Stephen Colbert: Bolton is leaving immediately, but his moustache will stay behind as Steven Miller’s new hairpiece.
Compliments of James Corden: Bolton is out, but his moustache will remain behind to tie up any loose ends.
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