*Can the world have an American President that for once doesn't start pointless wars to distract from internal scandals?

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marssaxman a day ago | parent | next [-]

It'd be nice if we could take a few years off from having a president at all - just rest, recover, and start to clean up the mess.

	▲	jkubicek a day ago \| parent [-]
		America needs a Snow Leopard. No new features, just bug fixes.

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lovich a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Every war in the 21st century that America has entered has been started by a Republican President

	▲	ImJamal 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		How are you defining war? Weren't Libya and Syria started under Obama?
	▲	the_gastropod 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Exactly. And also a solid chunk of the 20th century. "Starting a war" can be a bit of a fuzzy delineation, but reasonably-speaking, it's been over 60 years since a Democratic president started a war (Vietnam war in 1965). For whatever reason, these types of facts never seem to budge the "BOTH SIDES BAD" types, though.

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throwaway27448 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> to distract from internal scandals

This is ignoring fifty years of trying to start this war. Even blaming Israel doesn't entirely make sense. A large segment of capital in the US truly wants this war to happen (as foolish as that may seem to rational humans). It is not simply a distraction.

Or to put it another way, the Trump administration is characterized by dozens of scandals of bungled governance, each distracting from the next. Determining which is the "root" thing being distracted from is pointless.

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the_gastropod a day ago | parent | prev [-]

For once? Didn’t our previous president just clear this cynically low bar?

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netsharc a day ago | parent [-]

Ok, so in your genius reality, did Biden start the Russia-Ukrainian war or the Israeli genocide? Or am I just too dumb and interpreting your oh-so-clever sentence wrong?

I'm also curious if you could explain the logic more than "Just so your own research man"...

	▲	jkubicek a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think you’re responding to the wrong comment
	▲	ziml77 a day ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		You're reading them wrong and I'm not sure what you find clever about the wording. The bar was a president that doesn't start pointless wars. That's a low bar. Biden cleared said low bar by not starting pointless wars.
	▲	the_gastropod a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yea, other commenters on this thread got it, so think you misunderstood my point: no. Biden did not start any wars as far as I’m aware, which was the point I was trying to make: not only have there existed non-war-starting presidents, our previous president was one of them!