You might be right. I am an optimist. But recall Iraq, when Bush had to pretend he was liberating Iraqis. Now, they don't even try. It is too easy to read this as a worsening situation - what about it would be worse? Arguably, the same military outcome would happen regardless of how they talked about it, so wouldn't we prefer this obscene honesty about who we are? Would we rather be kept in the dark, have nothing change and no one learn? Trump advertised himself as an "isolationist;" a lie but imo an improvement from the jihadist neocons. They might have realized that dying for an oil company is bad. I am hoping for a similar improvement from liberals, to realize that Trump did not spring from Zeus' forehead, he was bred in a neoliberal laboratory that the Dems have a responsibility in creating.
You might be right. I am an optimist. But recall Iraq, when Bush had to pretend he was liberating Iraqis. Now, they don't even try. It is too easy to read this as a worsening situation - what about it would be worse? Arguably, the same military outcome would happen regardless of how they talked about it, so wouldn't we prefer this obscene honesty about who we are? Would we rather be kept in the dark, have nothing change and no one learn? Trump advertised himself as an "isolationist;" a lie but imo an improvement from the jihadist neocons. They might have realized that dying for an oil company is bad. I am hoping for a similar improvement from liberals, to realize that Trump did not spring from Zeus' forehead, he was bred in a neoliberal laboratory that the Dems have a responsibility in creating.