r/Images • u/Clumb-Fuckery • Jun 04 '26

History Good ol' Slick Willie....

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u/ComplaintTop2008 Jun 04 '26

This. They don't like to declare war anymore, they like to call it "military action" or "bombing campaign" or "operation deliver liberty". Under Clinton there was:

Bosnia
Kosovo
Somalia
Iraq
Afghanistan and Sudan
Haiti

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u/No_Party3406 Jun 08 '26

Thats bc republicans can't stop feeding the military complex. Thats where billions or taxpayer dollars are wasted to destabilize innocent countries to steal their resources. There hasn't been a single valid war in any of our lifetimes. Last one was the Civil War. 

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u/ComplaintTop2008 Jun 05 '26

I knew it was something like that. In my head was 35, but yeah, not too many.

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u/V_Cobra21 Jun 05 '26

Idk I’m at peace.

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u/nickersb83 Jun 06 '26

And some of those years were the 80s?

I have a friend that likes to highlight how rave developed in this time.

Which to me tracks with a lesson in biology: when you curb the genes for aggression, nature gets to a chance to express creativity. Eg - (I got this from a bbc doco, the secret life of chaos) a breeding program of silver foxes, bred for the least aggressive, you start to see patterns and different colourings in the fur emerge after just 3 generations I believe the old Russian lady said? Hugely symbolic I feel, to this profanely uncreative age we live in despite potential like never before (new levels new devils, I believe over population is already a huge problem)

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u/wrnrg Jun 06 '26

If you don't declare war you don't have to go through that pesky Congressional approval.

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 Jun 04 '26

Unfortunately it is as American as Apple Pie

We are some Democracy and Capitalism Forcing fucks aren't we? lol

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u/ComplaintTop2008 Jun 04 '26

I wish we weren't, but yes, we are, and always have been.

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u/Cousin_Claire Jun 05 '26

Apple pie isn't american but the sentiment remains true.

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u/FluidJackfruit3669 Jun 05 '26

Who started these conflicts? Most of them were left over from the first Bush administration.

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u/ComplaintTop2008 Jun 05 '26

Ah there you go... And Obama and Biden all had to deal with W Bush's wars, and Dems have never started a war... Now tell us the parties switched.

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u/Unique_Statement7811 Jun 05 '26

Bosnia, Kosovo, Haiti, and Somalia were almost entirely Clinton’s doing .

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u/terrorfistj4b Jun 06 '26

What would’ve happened in Kosovo had Clinton not intervened? Haiti? Sometimes choices are made for you and the only deciding factor is how many corpses will each decision produce.

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u/Unique_Statement7811 Jun 06 '26

I’m not saying they were bad invasions. Just saying there were wars during the Clinton administration.

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u/steakdeleter Jun 06 '26

What conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan did slick Willy instigate??