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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
(Post 1877950)
The moment she called one of our guys a 'spy', that was all I needed hear to know her bias.
You don't call our nationals spies unless they are working for the other side. :nope:
Our guys are Officers.
Foreigners who work for us are Agents
The bad guys are Spies.
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Oh yes of course. Just like Palestinians are terrorists but the Contras in Nicaragua were Freedom Fighters.
Sadaam was a great ally of the West until 15 minutes before Bush Sr. announced the First Gulf War when he finally gave up trying to save one of his favourite proxies against Iran/Russia.
So how is it then? One has an unpatriotic bias when they refuse to use the canned propagandized nomenclature dreamt up by some spinster doing his best to warp the perception of the public to prevent obviously dubious activities from being regarded in a way which would jeopardize an upcoming election?
I never understood why people felt that patriotism meant buying all the BS their own side was peddling.
How do you even have a conversation with someone about politics and the world if their definition of Journalism is that someone is disgusting if they aren't a cheerleader for the home team.
Are we sure they knocked that wall down in Berlin?
As for the matter of torture. Well it may be useful, it may not be. It may have helped prevent some attacks, it may not have. Either way one should call it what it is. If you can't torture people and be honest about it without losing an election then don't do it, or pay the price of defending freedom and be a one term ducky.
What I find insulting is this insistence that A. they will insist they don't torture, and B. that they get credit for the results of said nonexistent torture. Its like a rapper that wants everyone to believe he wasn't really a Crip and yet insists his street cred is real as evidenced by the sales of his record. |
