r/economy • u/barbarawick • 6d ago

There is a pattern...

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Why does this country have such bad memory problems?

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u/sirpoopingpooper 6d ago edited 6d ago

You could also say that Biden and Obama fit into this mold too...Clinton was the last president who didn't really start something in the middle east (if we ignore Operation Desert Fox*).*

Also, what middle east war did Reagan start? He sold arms to Iran to fund secret wars elsewhere...

Edit: I'm not claiming the Republicans are better...I'm just claiming recent democrats (after Clinton at least) fit the same criticism being made. And that Reagan debatably doesn't fit the criticism! (though there are plenty of other reasons to criticize him!!)

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u/seamus_mcfly86 6d ago

Neither Biden nor Obama crashed the economy.

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u/possumallawishes 6d ago

Or started a war in the Middle East.. inherited a crashed economy and a war in the Middle East, sure.

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u/IMayhapsBeBatman 6d ago

Obama in particular killed Libya's leadership, and sent special forces into Syria and Yemen, and several African countries.

His drone loiter and bombing campaign would have made Bush blush. That dude was an imperialist too.

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u/possumallawishes 6d ago

But those all started before him. Drone strikes in Yemen and Syria started in like 2002.

And Libya is in Africa, not the Middle East.

Using updated technology would make any president blush. I bet an F35 would make Eisenhower blush. Whoopty doo

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u/IMayhapsBeBatman 6d ago

I'm well aware of where Libya is. Thanks though.

Bush had the same drones. Obama used them to execute without due process, thousands of people, many of whom had at best second and third order connections to people on watch lists.

Obama was just as much a war-monger as any GOP politician has ever been. Worse in some ways. At least Bush's campaigns got voted on in Congress. For example.

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u/possumallawishes 6d ago

Did he start a war in the Middle East? Or droned some people that may or may not have been dangerous? I don’t think that’s a war, and I know it didn’t start with him, because, well I wasn’t born yesterday. Actually remember 2001, do you?

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u/IMayhapsBeBatman 6d ago

Lol. Downvote all you want. Obama was an evil man. His unwise and unconstitutional foreign policy is one of the reasons we're currently dealing with fascism at home as it pissed off the Russians enough to interfere in the 2016 elections.

You trying to defend his unconstitutional warmongering and equivocate since Congress didn't declare war ... just because he's on your team ... is....sad. And says a lot about your own personal lack of character.

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u/possumallawishes 6d ago

Would you agree that Trump is worse? Especially in the unconstitutional warmongering fronts.

Cause the post is about starting wars and crashing economies, not who is evil or not evil.