You don't need to convince ANYONE here that the permanent bureaucracy in Washington is rotten to its core, and cares way more about feathering their own nest, expanding the budgets of their gazillion departments, and ignoring the wishes of the plebeians they rule over. We love our country and hate our government pretty uniformly. Almost everyone here is a hard core, rule of law, constitutionalist. You either have to be that, or a moron to sign that blank check. We may disagree on a lot, but not first principals.
I would expect you to revert to your cartoonish skepticism and pretend that the Trump administrations exertions in the the first, full-frontal assault on that Deep State, in our lifetimes, will have no impact on it. How else does the one channel skeptic receive it? We all pretty much agree that necks need to be stretched to pay for the crimes committed by the Obama and Biden administrations and their coverups. Exposing them is not enough, but you are not talking about crimes of the deep state at all.
You appear to be talking about doctrines and policies that did actually make sense at the time. You are like the millennial who decries the bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima without considering what just had happened on Okinawa, or laments the racism of a country that interred it's Japanese citizens. Some of those Japanese citizens in Hawaii gave comfort and refuge to the pilots who had just attacked us, and the American people at the time did not know the extent of their devotion to their god emperor even though they were American citizens... It's easy to grab modern moral high ground if you are ignorant of the circumstances of the decisions at the time, but you are not learned or wise for doing so.
You say you are a historian, but ignore the recorded truth. You lack perspective. You even lack it in CURRENT events.
You are touting yourself as a historian because you don't like most of the outcomes in Pax Americana (admittedly just as "peaceful" as the Pax Romana), and think you know policy better. That's some real millennial bullshit and ignorance. The history that wasn't written is far more important than any of the history that was; mistakes and all. The entire Cold War since the VE/VJ day did not result in the most significant event of the 20th century that never happened. Despite all the failures, missteps, bad decisions, and yes, some mal actors, WWIII did not happen. By all measures it should have happened, just as WWI was largely responsible for the rise of the Nazis. We came close to blowing up the world. 9/11 of the events of the 21st century seem pretty insignificant next to the threat of global thermonuclear war many of us grew up in and served in. It wasn't like a distant possibility, but fucktards were demonstrating in the streets and marching for unilateral disarmament (yes, leftist have always been complete dumbfucks).
There is little or no hidden history, and the Kennedy assassination is remarkable because of how obviously twisted and opaque it remains to this day, kinda like the 2017 Las Vegas Shootings, or the Butler attempt, or the Seth Rich assassination, which we still don't know fuckall about. There are things that are opaque and speculation is fine, and things that aren't, and that are the stuff of modern revisionist history not because of the reality of the events as they happened, but because of the way modern morons feel about it. They want to think they're a different and wiser animal and they aren't.
If we rolled up on the Aztecs TODAY, it is very likely we would have the same reaction as Cortez did. These are devil worshiping maniacs for whom human life has less value than a cumquat, they need to be either conquered and civilized or fucking destroyed, because no other culture can ever hope to coexist with them, period. Same thing with many of the American Indian tribes. They were "savage". So either you give them wide berth, or you end them, because you can't live next to them. Trying to understand what happened and how it happened from your own frame of reference is to be not only ignorant, but willfully and appearently proudly so.
What kind of ignorance is proud of itself? There's quite a bit and it all comes from the left. Context is everything, and you spit stuff out like it's simple and with no context like you know what you're talking about, and it rubs me the wrong way. It's not educating anyone. It's spreading ignorance. It's fine to point out mistakes, and there have been many, but to believe you have a handle on it all from your own perspective is amazingly arrogant, ignorant, and intellectually dishonest.
For all the failures of the RBIO it was successful in the only one that really mattered. You even being here is evidence of that. We can and should build better institutions, ones that keep out those who don't believe in our first principals, but you don't understand what's going on better than an average person. Whatever you are reading on the internet is giving you a kaleidoscopic view, not a clear one.
You can state that understanding the past and history is critical to understanding the present and making good decisions, and I would agree with you 100%, but you cannot understand that past from your own perspective. That is leftist, woke bullshit. and you will end up less wise at the end of it rather than more wise, because it makes you believe that you are somehow different and wiser than all the people who made those decisions with the information they had at the time, and even worse you can judge them as evil for making those decisions with the benefit of hindsight.
If you feel personally insulted it's because I feel you approach all this from a position that is at once extremely arrogant and extremely ignorant and dismissive of anything but "your truth" at the same time. I don't know where that comes from, but a modicum of humility would do you a world of good.
