@oktavia-von-gwwcendorff
(Also, if it turns out to have been a clever way to quickly sate some bloodlust while defusing tensions that would’ve risked Clinton getting actually involved on the ground, while informing Russia (and indirectly even Assad) beforehand acted as a way to ensure it doesn’t get misinterpreted and start WW3, and they don’t have any longer-term escalating effects, then I guess grudging hats off to whoever came up with the idea to harm-reduce the “I was wrong about Iraq but Syria totally has chemical weapons and we need to Do Something” crowd by doing Something that isn’t yet another war)
I think the bit in parens is depressingly true.
I do as well, and I find it worrying. People joke that the issue with Democracy is that half of voters have below-average IQ. That isn’t true in itself, but…
What’s the median Clue Quotient?
Why did the Establishment, who are mostly all going to be above-average intelligence, start getting hyped up for a war in Syria? And perhaps, more importantly, how the fuck did these people whose IQs should all be above 110 not learn from the Iraq War not one decade ago? They were all alive and adults back then!
The only one Establishment man that I know for sure learned something was “Publius Deis Mus”, and he works for Trump the last time I checked.