Army to Marine Corps, waving a flag at one another is not any kind of tactic. As to passion about the United States, I am passionate about our nation when it is correct and moral, and not when the Biden administration -- the third term of Obama, as I see it -- is doing the anti-American things it is doing. No "my country, right or wrong" for me.
That being said, combat vet, if you were in charge of interrogating a prisoner, you would do so, questioning with the hopes of learning something from an enemy combatant.
Your assertion that I am suggesting you watch/listen to any video is incorrect. I merely noted that you "cast the first stone" in the "who's intelligent" salvos thrown back and forth.
That exchange upon which I commented was:
To: Cathi
Very useful, eye opening discussion for the very intelligent freepers. I do not recommend it for the others.
Guess I'll skip it then!
That's it. The remainder of our exchange is a show of your thin skin.
Whoever Cathi is, whoever you are and whoever you might think I am, we all have a right to our views. Even the damn Democrat Socialists of America, some of whom sit in our very own Congress.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Democratic_Socialists_of_America_members_who_have_held_office_in_the_United_States
I won't suggest any of us who would employ FR for commenting on issues of the day are a "condescending douchenozzle" because ad hominem is never particularly constructive.
SoConPubbie observed for you as to you:
To: Bruce Campbells Chin
Guess I'll skip it then!
Probably a good idea for you.
Seems apt. But as an anecdote about a post and something far more potent than a mere Leftie's view to things, when a resident of Germany, my German neighbor was aghast that I had read Mein Kampf, for a number of reasons. At that time, it was still not officially available by government edict until the new publication with footnotes and more was made available only recently, and additionally I, a Jew, had read the tripe. I wanted to read firsthand what true evil was in and for such a historic time. So Army to Marine Corps, we should be better than ad hominem and such. So do I think.
The argument you're advancing about this particular video is the same dodgy "know thine enemy" argument advanced by General Milley and the CNO when explaining why there were hard left and Anti-white BLM books on the recommended reading list. The obvious problem is that neither General Milley's recommended reading list nor this 2-hour-long video were presented in the context of knowing your enemy. It wasn't like being told to read Mao's Little Red Book. Instead, both those leftist books and this openly leftist video were presented in the context of these are good, informative views that we should incorporate into our own thinking.
And Cathi is not American.
I should add that the only reason I mentioned my service was because someone claimed that I somehow “betrayed” some secret because of my “vocabulary and passion”. I was simply pointing out that anyone could click on my name and see my background if they so chose. No secret.
You are a very patient man...:-) Personally as an “American to Army” I have come to the conclusion that some people are just not “educable.” There are about a dozen of these currently on FR and I never respond to ANY of their posts.
But, for those uninformed who may be unaware, but still interested in understanding truth here is a link to Wiki’s info on U.S. involvement in “regime change, coup de ta and color revolutions.” It, too, is “eye opening”...:-)
As an aside the United States currently has 750 U.S. military bases in 80 countries.
As Pepe Escobar outlined in his one hour interview we are in the midst of dramatic global change.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
United States involvement in regime change
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Since the 19th century, the United States government has participated and interfered, both overtly and covertly, in the replacement of several foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars. At the onset of the 20th century, the United States shaped or installed governments in many countries around the world, including neighbors Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.
During World War II, the United States helped overthrow many Nazi German or Imperial Japanese puppet regimes. Examples include regimes in the Philippines, Korea, the Eastern portion of China, and much of Europe. United States forces were also instrumental in ending the rule of Adolf Hitler over Germany and of Benito Mussolini over Italy.
In the aftermath of World War II, the U.S. government struggled with the Soviet Union for global leadership, influence and security within the context of the Cold War. Under the Eisenhower administration, the U.S. government feared that national security would be compromised by governments propped by the Soviet Union’s own involvement in regime change and promoted the domino theory, with later presidents following Eisenhower’s precedent.[1] Subsequently, the United States expanded the geographic scope of its actions beyond traditional area of operations, Central America and the Caribbean. Significant operations included the United States and United Kingdom-orchestrated 1953 Iranian coup d’état, the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion targeting Cuba, and support for the overthrow of Sukarno by General Suharto in Indonesia. In addition, the U.S. has interfered in the national elections of countries, including Italy in 1948,[2] the Philippines in 1953, and Japan in the 1950s and 1960s[3][4] as well as Lebanon in 1957.[5] According to one study, the U.S. performed at least 81 overt and covert known interventions in foreign elections during the period 1946–2000.[6] According to another study, the U.S. engaged in 64 covert and six overt attempts at regime change during the Cold War.[1]
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the United States has led or supported wars to determine the governance of a number of countries. Stated U.S. aims in these conflicts have included fighting the War on Terror, as in the Afghan War, or removing weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), as in the Iraq War.