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2016 Postmortem

JayhawkSD

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3. What have we become?

Reply to egbertowillies (Original post)

Thu Dec 25, 2014, 10:55 AM

Dec 2014

Wrecking the economy of another nation and imposing poverty and misery on the people of that nation counts as an "economic policy success" these days?

It may look good today, but when we did that to Japan they wound up bombing Pearl Harbor.

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