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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Sunday, October 22, 2017

Yeah, But...

Secretary of State and IQ Aficionado, T-Rex Tillerson, makes a decent point: with ISIS effectively defeated, Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops and advisers should go home.

There is a problem with his suggestion/demand.  US troops are still in Iraq.  Why should Iran not follow their own country's interests in expanding their influence in Iraq and Syria?  Isn't that precisely what we've been doing?

As the saying goes, countries don't have friends, they have interests.  What is so baffling about conservative foreign policy is that it is based on the idea that no other country should be able to pursue its interests, if that conflicts with US interests.  Unless it's Israel or Saudi Arabia, then YOLO. 

Don't think the rest of the world doesn't smell the hypocrisy.

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