obnoxious, deeply racist, uncritical support of a war -> war ends -> hmm maybe this war is more complicated than I thought -> hmm maybe we even did some bad things -> hmm maybe we were in the wrong the whole time -> dang, I will never believe US propaganda so uncritically next time, I've learned my lesson -> holy shit that country over there is doing really bad things, we need to get involved! -> obnoxious, deeply racist, uncriticla support of a war
That's truly the most depressing part about the whole thing. Every time there's a new war they think this is going to be the one just war where US is on the right side of history, despite this having never been the case in the past. I guess that goes hand in hand with the whole American exceptionalism notion.
watching libs go through the cycle of
obnoxious, deeply racist, uncritical support of a war -> war ends -> hmm maybe this war is more complicated than I thought -> hmm maybe we even did some bad things -> hmm maybe we were in the wrong the whole time -> dang, I will never believe US propaganda so uncritically next time, I've learned my lesson -> holy shit that country over there is doing really bad things, we need to get involved! -> obnoxious, deeply racist, uncriticla support of a war
for the umpteenth time in the last century
That's truly the most depressing part about the whole thing. Every time there's a new war they think this is going to be the one just war where US is on the right side of history, despite this having never been the case in the past. I guess that goes hand in hand with the whole American exceptionalism notion.