re: When the Atlantic says we are winning ….

Rush would have been all over this. Never trust The Atlantic.

Oh wow were aerially bombing a third world country halfway across the world, does that count as “winning?”

Watching Trump say how much we are winning while also begging the world to come help him try and keep the strait of Hormuz open, in the same breath, is very entertaining at least

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And I haven't really heard a good argument from a Trump supporter on why you don't support this

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War?

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but instead the past 40 years of our dealings in the ME.

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War?

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And I haven't really heard a good argument from a Trump supporter on why you don't support this but instead the past 40 years of our dealings in the ME.

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I don’t support basically anything we’ve done in the Middle East.

We’ve wasted American lives and money for basically no financial gain for US voters while funding and creating groups like Al-qaeda for dubious reasons and catastrophic long term consequences.

There’s a larger debate to be had about the minimum we needed to do to maintain reserve currency status, but if that was the goal I’d argue it could’ve been done much more intelligently.