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Unsaint Finbar's avatar

Most people on the street can't find France on a map, or tell you who our first two Presidents were.

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Nothingtoseehere's avatar

Wouldn't you love to quiz the protestors chanting "from the river to the sea" to ask them the names of the river and the sea?

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Unsaint Finbar's avatar

Or to point out that what is ACTUALLY meant by that is "dead Jews from the river to the sea".

It's odd to observe that Hitler was bad because he committed genocide, but the same people who like to call everyone Nazis ALSO advocate genocide against the same Jews. This allies them with Hitler, pretty obviously, and in my view undeniably.

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Madjack's avatar

I had a recommendation recently. If we want to go to war, 50% of random Americans have to find the country on a map.

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Unsaint Finbar's avatar

I doubt if, in 2010, 1 in 10 Americans could have differentiated Iran and Iraq--on a map or culturally--if they had not served over there.

I am very pro-military. I count many veterans as friends. But on balance I don't anyone can honestly argue that our governments since Korea--which should have resulted in a unified non-Communist peninsula--have supported our troops with integrity.

If you look at, say, Afghanistan, it's become hard for me to believe that many of our wars are not just some horrifying for-profit game.

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