This is EXACTLY what happened in Viet Nam. “Bringing the troops home” is not enough to fundamentally disrupt the consciousness that produced whatever war just ended & which inevitably produces the next one. We need a new conversation & a US Dept. of Peace. washingtonpost.com/graphics/…

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“We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan — we didn’t know what we were doing,” Douglas Lute, a three-star Army general who served as the White House’s Afghan war czar during the Bush and Obama administrations, told government interviewers in 2015.”
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Anyone not mired in the propaganda of this already knew this.
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The intrusion of war is felt for generations.
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We need to bury the capitalist mind like it is plutonium. All the US has taught me in life is a disdain for capitalism and capitalists. Anything else is still under review.
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Peace is the fruit of fairness. If we we simply acted justly there would be no need for a department.. for peace would be in every section.
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Donald Trump is the conversation starter....that’s if you’re serious...somehow I doubt it
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Thank you for continuing to talk about this
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If I find the MH370 plane now, how much will the government give me?