Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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EVERY Air Strike Is a War Crime
Recent revelations that “Thousands of US airstrikes have been unaccounted for in Syria, Iraq & Afghanistan“— revelations based on the public documents of the US military itself— show the ugly face of a much deeper, much more egregious, even criminal problem. Here was part of the report, based on The Military Times: US Central Command has…
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We Need More Nukes– And the Sahara Needs More Sand and..
President-elect Donald Trump tweeted that “The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.” Source: How the US’s nuclear weapons compare to Russia’s – Business Insider And the King of Saudi Arabia tweeted that “until the world comes to its senses…
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Trump Calls Cost of F-35 Fighter Jet ‘Out of Control’ – The New York Times
This is something I wish President Obama had done on his first day of office. Sometimes, you– or somebody you know– does the exact right thing, but for the exact wrong reason. The Boy Bully Prez. Elect did exactly that on Monday, when he challenged the billions of dollars going into our latest Global Swat…
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Does Trump Have a Plan? Why Is He Surrounding Himself with So Many Generals?
This, from Politico: Michael D’Antonio, a Trump biographer who spent hours interviewing him in 2014, worried that the president-elect could be “vulnerable” to the suggestions of the top brass. “I think Donald has been fascinated by military men since he was 13 years old and sent away to this [military] academy,” D’Antonio said of the…
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Women Are Not Fit for Combat
Obviously, women are not suited for Combat. Contrary to what Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter naively proposes, all unbiased, non-military research, along with multi-generations of direct experience conclusively demonstrate that although women may be physically able to perform all the combat roles asked of them, they are at root neither emotionally nor mentally suited for…
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