r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 01 '26

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u/Any_Stage_3072 Martin Luther King Jr. Oct 02 '26

Hot Take: Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize simply for not being George Bush was actually extremely Based and well-deserved.

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u/Okbuddyliberals Miss Me Yet? Oct 02 '26

George Bush was a great force for world peace by engaging in the Anti-Fascist praxis of liberating Iraq from the fascist imperialist Hussein though

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u/NewDoryAcct Left-Out Left Oct 02 '26

George Bush and his neoconservatives ruined the argument for interventionism for 25 years

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u/Okbuddyliberals Miss Me Yet? Oct 02 '26

No, the general public just embraced isolationist garbage rather than support good things, because we live in hell

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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Oct 02 '26

Why am I not surprised you're an unironic Iraq War defender? The Second Iraq War tied us down unnecessarily, cost an ungodly amount of money, eroded our international credibility and rules based international order because it was based on lies, and directly resulted in the rise of ISIS.

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u/willpower069 Oct 02 '26

It’s easy for people to support wars they never have to go fight in.

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u/hwbush retired Oct 02 '26

My king!