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Is it just me or is the 21st century....rather boring?
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On thinking of the modern equivalents of the Boston Tea Party, Bleeding Kansas and the war in Spain, I kind of remembered those little skirmishes in the Middle East. Trump did pull out finally, but back in the 2003 to 2008 time frame, we got quite involved in Afghanistan and Iraq, not to mention a civil war in Syria. I have argued a bit that we had a failed crisis back then, pitting ‘stay the course’ vs ‘cut and run’ that was an attempt by the conservatives to do a value changing transformation. We didn’t mobilize, but kept calling up the reserves until they were about spent. We went shopping. We destabilized the region.

I have begun to wonder if ‘boring’ means ‘out of range of assault gun fire.’
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RE: Is it just me or is the 21st century....rather boring? - by Bob Butler 54 - 04-28-2020, 04:35 PM

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