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Dad. Husband. Vet. Ex NSC/WH Staff. Doc of International Affairs. Senior Fellow, FPI SAIS, JHU. NYT Best-selling Author.
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Here's the video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND3u...
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Circulating Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address because that speech, on the occasion of Memorial Day, better captures the spirit of this somber day.
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-- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
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It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—
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The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
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But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
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We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war.
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And he’s taxing most Americans with his idiotic tariff scheme, while stealing their hard-earned benefits to enrich himself and his billionaire friends. And the GOP completely embraces these activities.
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Trump and the GOP steal from the poor, working class, and middle class Americans to give to the ultra wealthy.
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Trump has schizophrenic communist, fascist, and robber baron tendencies. He demands industry/ business price controls, stifles free speech, attempts to silence opposition, and uses the law to pursue political opponents.
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Setting aside the hypocrisy over claims of fiscal conservatism & the threat to national security, as future debt service payments will make it very hard to cover debt, pay for national defense, & meet services obligations like providing Social Security and Medicaid, this is a billionaire’s budget.
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The Ukrainian have moved on including reportedly, interestingly, using an interpreter to communicate with the Russians. That in its own write is a powerful message.
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*1945
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What really pisses me off is the military parade he’s trying to get for his birthday. There should be mass resignations to protest this obscene vanity project that wastes precious resources and the time of our troops.
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Worse yet, changing Veterans Day to Victory Day for WWI ignores the sacrifice of those countless others who served.
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Trump sees the world much like Putin. The strong must pray on the weak. The strong are entitled to coerce small states to squeeze deals.
Again the Russian describe these features of Trump in state-run media and official channels.
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…playing to Trump’s vanity and ego as a deal maker and on ignorance driven fears [other example are buying Russia’s narrative of NATO aggression]; and Trump is a fellow traveler.
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Trump meets two criteria to qualify as a Russian asset. Trump is both a useful idiot because he is easily manipulated to serve Putin… look at Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to capitulate on the mirage of deals, economic cooperation, reducing the imaginary risk of World War III…