Post 2001, the *only* years in which any common sense has succeeded in breaking through and affecting US Mideast policy were when Donald Trump was President—a businessman without any training or expertise in foreign policy.
Like it or not, that’s just the truth.
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Overall, US policy in the Mideast since 2001 has mostly been an endless series of DC super geniuses trying to implement one egg-head academic fantasy after another: From “neoconservatives” exporting liberal democracy to “realists” trying to balance Iran against Israel.
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Assad is a tyrant and a tool of Iranian empire. He deserves whatever is coming.
But the al-Qaida adjacent monsters about to take over are a catastrophe: For the Syrian Christians, Druze, and the Kurds, as well as for Israel and the Arab monarchies.
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In 1960, David Latimer placed a spiderwort plant in a big glass bottle with a bit of water and sealed it.
He only opened it once in 1972 to add more water and then closed it forever.
This little garden in a bottle has been growing for over 60 years.
How does it work? The garden in the bottle is a self-running ecosystem.
Bacteria in the soil eat the dead plants and turn the plant's oxygen into carbon dioxide for photosynthesis. The bottle is essentially a small model of Earth.
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(via @whatifalthist)
This is one of the reasons the left can be successful: selling false promise to neurotics while baiting the right into hazard when they try to stop their lies and neuroticism.
We just filed an amicus brief asking SCOTUS to grant cert to Snope v. Brown, which challenges Maryland's "assault weapons" ban. This case is the first merits-level AWB case to make it to SCOTUS after Bruen. Our brief tells the Court that it's time to take it.🧵
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So, we pay 0.00196078431 of the monthly budget to help defeat a China-aligned nation waging a war of aggression against a European power? I fail to see the issue with that. I would say we should spend more to build up arm manufacturing capability, if anything.
I am 100% against this and so are most Americans.
The U.S. is funding the Ukraine Gov at $1 billion/month to keep it running and funding most of the war by providing weapons, ammo, and equipment.
The U.S. should be negotiating peace not fueling war.
Ryan Routh, another white male republican, tried to assassinate Trump Hitler. Republicans blame the left.
Ryan-
voted for Trump in 2016.
supported a Haley/Vivek ticket in 2024.
suffered long history of mental illness.
Trump allowed the mentally ill to buy assault guns in 2018