DTA - You know where the monkey sleeps. What is desperately needed on FR and among Republicans is an ability to step outside the blinders of ideology and simply let the facts speak for themselves. Stalin a butcher, yep. Hitler a butcher, yep. But the question always remains, how do we see behind the camouflage, the false flags, the hidden agendas, the superficial text book versions of history and discover how factions are manufactured, groomed and deployed clandestinely against the forces of truth and beauty?
Too many of us on FR refuse to examine the deep ambivalences of history and prefer to go knee jerk rather than hypothetical. We need to understand the science of geopolitics, the science of spy craft and the science of deception in order to know how political motivations are generated and manipulated. We have a stupid predisposition to accuse others of puppetry while refusing to examine the strings attached to our limbs.
We simply have to get smarter faster. If you think you are smart enough, you are a fool.
Too many supported the wars of choice that have bankrupted our nation, produced tens of thousands of maimed boys, and 22 suicides a day (including vets who are fathers driving their cars into telephone poles, who I know of personally).