• kreskin@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    7 hours ago

    Hows our “Project for a new American century” coming along? Seems it wasnt as easy as just writing down all the things we lusted after and grabbing them via pure hubris.

  • WraithGear@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    6 hours ago

    um what? america has only won 2 wars against a guerrilla force of their own terf in the last 100 years.

  • spitfire@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    6 hours ago

    I’m going to disagree with just one thing: the regime hasn’t really changed. But it isn’t and never was US&A’s fucking business. Change your own first ;)

  • AeonFelis@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    11 hours ago

    I wonder how much better would he fare had he assisted the protester, in time, like he promised, instead of letting them get massacred only to start his own thing a few months later.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    18
    ·
    1 day ago

    No one wins when people start shooting at each other. There are only different degrees of losing. There is no glory in war, only suffering of the poor for the rich.

    • yesman@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      44
      ·
      1 day ago

      Nixon was not decent. The difference was that a Senator (Goldwater) told Nixon point blank that he was getting impeached and the senate had the votes to convict and remove.

      Like most government officials “retirement” is getting fired.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        1 day ago

        They also didn’t have Faux “News”, hate radio, or the Internet back then, either.

        What’s so fucked up is that POS of a FCC chairman just celebrated making it even worse than it already was for truth.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      1 day ago

      I genuinely think he’s by far the most likely president in this country’s history to launch ICBMs if he knows he is fucked. Which was a conclusion myself and any non-moron also came to in 2015.

  • kmartburrito@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    43
    ·
    2 days ago

    He’s never been anything but a silver spoon total loser. He’s not even a skilled criminal. Fucking bush league in every measure.

  • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    25
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 days ago

    a) This headline forgets W losing Afghanistan

    b) Fuck Nixon, but Eisenhower deserves the blame for Vietnam (admittedly one of the reasons he did that was because he thought it would give him political cover to shut McCarthyism down, but still)

    • grue@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      2 days ago

      admittedly one of the reasons he did that was because he thought it would give him political cover to shut McCarthyism down

      I want to learn more about that. Got a recommendation?