Polk's administration engineered the Mexican-American War and promoted the Manifest Destiny. Reagan's administration engineered the Iran-Contra Affair and promoted the Damndest Mendacity.
My first encounter with it was in the National Guard, someone was reading it at drill and I was paging through it, thinking what .. the fuck ... is this dude crazy? The guy said something like "know your enemy, you know" and I was like, if this shit is true, I am 100% down with this guy!
Thinking about some of the teabagging fucknuts in the House and Senate ... does anybody know if any of them were "educated" with this garbage?
Pope--I mean John--Adams was pretty firm in his beliefs, despite thinly-veiled and not-particularly-thinly-veiled indifference from Franklin and hostility from Jefferson.
Carter really tried to do everything himself but there wasn't enough time in the day. SNL did a great skit of him (played by Dan Aykroyd I think) talking down someone having a bad acid trip.
"This gave Communists around the world the idea that the United States had given up on its policy to protect Central America from Communism, which led to increased terrorism in El Salvador and Nicaragua."
Oh FFS. I remember the 80&#039;s and the almost complete control the &quot;liberal media&quot; and the hawks in DC had over the truth about what we were doing in Latin America. Almost no one was aware of any of it, and most people thought the Sandanistas were totalitarian dictators and torturing everyone constantly. Chomsky&#039;s <i>Deterring Democracy</i> was a very rude awakening for me.
Polk&#039;s administration engineered the Mexican-American War and promoted the Manifest Destiny. Reagan&#039;s administration engineered the Iran-Contra Affair and promoted the Damndest Mendacity.
My brother wouldn&#039;t stop going on and on about that in 2008.
Get out of town! Man, D.C. is the smallest city in the universe, and the Pentagon is even smaller still.
My first encounter with it was in the National Guard, someone was reading it at drill and I was paging through it, thinking what .. the fuck ... is this dude crazy? The guy said something like &quot;know your enemy, you know&quot; and I was like, if this shit is true, I am 100% down with this guy!
Nancy can do something to help you with that.
Nobody has mentioned how Jimmy Carter singlehandedly brought Disco to its knees. Rock on, Jimmy!
Thinking about some of the teabagging fucknuts in the House and Senate ... does anybody know if any of them were &quot;educated&quot; with this garbage?
Pope--I mean John--Adams was pretty firm in his beliefs, despite thinly-veiled and not-particularly-thinly-veiled indifference from Franklin and hostility from Jefferson.
He was the wrong Christian. He didn&#039;t follow the FreeMarket Capitalist Jesus.
Are we close to the end of these bullshit &quot;textbooks&quot;? I can&#039;t take much more of this.
Trick question! NOT getting into unnecessary wars PROVES he was weak!
A Letter to the Derpiter of my local fishwrap insists Christians cannot be liberals. So, QED.
Not to mention that rescue effort was headed by SuperPatriot Ollie North.
Carter really tried to do everything himself but there wasn&#039;t enough time in the day. SNL did a great skit of him (played by Dan Aykroyd I think) talking down someone having a bad acid trip.
&quot;This gave Communists around the world the idea that the United States had given up on its policy to protect Central America from Communism, which led to increased terrorism in El Salvador and Nicaragua.&quot;
Oh FFS. I remember the 80&#039;s and the almost complete control the &quot;liberal media&quot; and the hawks in DC had over the truth about what we were doing in Latin America. Almost no one was aware of any of it, and most people thought the Sandanistas were totalitarian dictators and torturing everyone constantly. Chomsky&#039;s <i>Deterring Democracy</i> was a very rude awakening for me.
Or, if he did, he forgot it soon afterwards.