i never disagreed with you that morality is a luxury - in fact i agreed with it completely. my whole point is how obviously one sided your views are and how it doesnt help because ONCE AGAIN rural vs urban doesnt matter when it should certainly be about those with the power/means of production vs the workers. those with power will try and get the working people to use anything to not focus on the fact they are getting screwed.
but yes i do see the irony in dem politicians crapping on morality in the midwest now vs republican politicians in urban areas in the 70’s. point being - they are trying to distract you. look at policy & see what comes out of it. has free trade impacted manufacturing? 100% but so have hundreds of trickle down economic policies over the years - the whole point of which to drive down the cost of production i.e. wages.
I mean you can draw the line how you want but I didn’t manufacture the urban and rural concept. The poverty in the rust belt and Appalachians is more severe than any other region of the US by most measures and the demographic shifts in the economy between the rural and urban divide are real. You’re in denial to call those statements of fact one-sided. I acknowledged there are other factors, but this one is much larger than you’re acknowledging and its as major driver of the political and class divide.
On the surface I agree with you but honestly don’t know enough about the guy to know what’s real and what’s hype. The political side of the military isn’t my strong suite.
John Bolton wrote this editorial on Feb 28, 2018 in the WSJ. In closing:
"Although the Caroline criteria are often cited in pre-emption debates, they are merely customary international law, which is interpreted and modified in light of changing state practice. In contemporary times, Israel has already twice struck nuclear-weapons programs in hostile states: destroying the Osirak reactor outside Baghdad in 1981 and a Syrian reactor being built by North Koreans in 2007.
_This is how we should think today about the threat of nuclear warheads delivered by ballistic missiles. In 1837 Britain unleashed pre-emptive “fire and fury” against a wooden steamboat. It is perfectly legitimate for the United States to respond to the current “necessity” posed by North Korea’s nuclear weapons by striking first." _
Stick to the illuminati theories you can’t talk about at all credibly (because they’re bull shit) and stay away from global politics you can’t talk about at all credibly (because you have no idea what you’re talking about), turd.
During the 1969 Vietnam War draft lottery, Bolton drew number 185. (Draft numbers corresponded to birth dates.)[24] As a result of the Johnson and Nixon administrations’ decisions to rely largely on the draft rather than on the reserve forces, joining a Guard or Reserve unit became a way to avoid service in the Vietnam War.[25] Bolton enlisted in the Maryland Army National Guard in 1970 rather than wait to find out if his draft number would be called.[26] (The highest number called to military service was 195.)[27] After serving in the National Guard for four years, he served in the United States Army Reserve until the end of his enlistment two years later.[28] He wrote in his Yale 25th reunion book "I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost."
