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Thomas Oberbroeckling's avatar

This and the Clinton article you wrote I feel really drive at a facet of the neoliberal/liberal conservative geopolitical mindset: informed ignorance.

They speak a slew of details, but at the end of the day they can only view conflicts as good vs evil. The reasons behind the conflict are left as an intrinsic nature of the two parties. Good will resist evil, evil will attack good. They fail to understand that these conflicts are almost always way more complicated. It’s why Iraq went from a pseudo-ally during the Iraq-Iran conflicts to our enemy in desert storm. Same with the Mujahideen/Al Qaeda.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

This encapsulates why I like to read (or listen to) at least 3 biographies before I really feel like I understand a person, and at least 5 different news stories about the same event. Sometimes there are unintentional omissions, even without an agenda.. and then, of course, there are also agendas.

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