re: Rand Paul Calls Hillary Clinton a 'War Hawk' in NBC Interview

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The great thing about counterfactuals is that they're not falsifiable

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Well that is certainly not universally true, is it. It depends on the fact being countered, and on the nature of the counter itself.

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Literally any article written by a neocon or liberventionist on Ukraine. "If Nobama had only acted more strongly in [NO SPECIFICS GIVEN] then Putin would never have had THE STONES to invade this country full of Russians literally next door to him!"

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The appropriate steps in Syria and the Ukraine would have been diplomatic, and would have substantially preceded any military action. Hard to expect such diplomatic anticipation though, if your team is so inept that it doesn't even anticipate a threat in Benghazi on 9/11/2012.