Drill down into the sub-strata of all the negative press about the Biden administration and

[Atticus]

you find this naked truth: ending the ridiculous 20 year war in Afghanistan will cost a lot of "Very Important People" billions---if not trillions---of dollars.

95% of the "righteous" indignation about our "abandonment" of the people of Afghanistan is astroturf. The rest is the very reliable willful ignorance of rally-goers.

Unless we allow THEM to write it, history will be kind to Joe.

[Champp]

1. "We demand more, more, more for our billionaire moneybuck backers." - Republicans

[aggiesal]

4. I use ...

Greedy
One
Percent

[LakeArenal]

5. To put it in terms Magats can understand:

G Grabbing
O Old
P. Pussyheads

[mitch96]

2. War is a racket.. always was, always will be.. It's all about the money and power..nt

[evolves]

3. It is my belief that this very thing

is why JFK was assassinated, and why his brother RFK was assassinated as well. They were working to shut down the Vietnam war, which was WAY too profitable for the MIC to let happen. Eisenhower was right. (AND, he was the last decent Republican; he would be a left-leaning Democrat now.)

[OnlinePoker]

7. Eisenhower waited until his departure address to comment on the MIC

He did nothing about it for the 8 years he was in office.

[MrModerate]

6. And the modern media is reflexive: whoever's in charge must be resisted, rightly or wrongly. n/t

[Ron Green]

8. **This** is the truth.