Comment by nickpinkston

1 day ago

Iran... if you're listening...

We'd love to see all of those Epstein files.

Is this a reference to

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-asked-russia-to-...

> "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press," Trump said in a July 27, 2016 news conference.

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  • All the time, just those military aged men don't call them their enemy because they know they aren't. Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Afganistan, etc, most people don't consider the majority of those peoples the enemy whether they are fighting or not because they don't think we should have been trying to kill or subjugate them in the first place.

    The goals and ideals of politicians and powermongers rarely aligns with the majority of the population.

  • I’d never support a repressive theocracy like the current Iranian regime and will not cheer on their propaganda operations.

    But let’s not confuse this Iran conflict with a legitimate war. Only congress can declare war and appropriate funds for a war. What we have is a rogue authoritarian executive that was incompetent enough to ignore military assessments and be manipulated by Netanyahu to strike.

    People should protest like there is no tomorrow when la senile demagogue is destroying the international world order, free trade and freedom of the seas. That is not the same as rooting for the enemy!

    • > What we have is a rogue authoritarian executive that was incompetent enough to ignore military assessments and be manipulated by Netanyahu to strike.

      Yeah, except we’ve had that for the entirety of this century so far at least.

  • Maybe we need to get rid of the concept of "enemy" and "ally", as seemingly those labels matter less and less as time goes on.

    Maybe one is the "enemy", and the others can be "less enemy" and "more enemy". So we're all enemies in reality, but some more enemies than others.

  • There are 193 countries in the world other than America and whichever country they are bombing this week.