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Presidents making a war escalation speech to enthusiastic supporters, now.....
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"This is not a war of choice. This is a war of necessity. "
President Barack Obama, VFW convention, August 2009.
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.....and back then.
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Presidents collaborating with corrupt, illegitimate, duplicitous foreign governments, EVEN THOUGH counter-insurgency doctrine says you must partner with a viable, legitimate government to do COIN, otherwise you're just supporting one group of bad actors over another (the Viet Nam mistake), now....
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....and back then.
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Presidents with generals who have a hearty CAN DO! attitude, and who are happy to march more and more troops into a lake of deadly quicksand, now....
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....and back then.
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Troops who are paying the price and bearing the burden for war based on specious, bizarre reasoning, now.....
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.....and back then.
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Democratic Presidents, as they take office, now....
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....and after escalating a previous war, where the political/military leaders ALSO CHOSE TO IGNORE the history and the culture of a distant foreign nation......
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