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sinkingfeeling

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Wed Jun 3, 2015, 10:24 AM Jun 2015

Jon Stewart Slams The Chickenhawks On Foreign Policy: 'Learning Curves Are For P*ssies'

Hope everybody saw 'The Daily Show' last night. I can't locate the video by itself, so see it here: http://crooksandliars.com/2015/06/jon-stewart-slams-chickenhawks-foreign

"We're like Wile E. Coyote," Stewart said. "Every time we send a weapon into the dessert, it ends up where we don't want it to be!"

"We spent the 80s giving Saddam Hussein's Baathists weapons to fight against the Iranians; the 90s helping Kuwait fight against Saddam's Baathists that we armed; the 2000s heading a coalition to destroy Saddam's Baathists, and the 2010s fighting against those very same unemployed Baathists now going by the name ISIS that we originally originally armed in the 80s to fight Iran," he said breathlessly.

"But to really ensure we have not skated even a micrometer up the learning curve, guess who our new designated good guy, with a gun, in the region is?" he asked.

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/qr9n5u/america-in-the-middle-east--learning-curves-are-for-pussies

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