"If grassroots lefties can’t appreciate that, it’s only because the ending of this movie failed to sate their growing appetite for ruthlessness." - Nick Cattogio

"The values of the two sides couldn’t be reconciled, so one would eventually have to defeat the other. There could be no compromise in this “clash.”
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Nearly 25 years later, it seems to me like we’ve reached a compromise. And both ends of it are unintended consequences of the Iraq war."

"The West believed in pluralism, free markets, and human rights like freedom of speech and religion; the East believed in tribalism, state control of the economy, and oppression aimed at establishing cultural dominance."

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"Naturally, he attempts to cast his opponents in that role, for, as history shows, this charge is the refuge of scoundrels, demagogues, and dictators.”

"If you’re a populist who’s grown disaffected with the president (and there are quite a few of those lately), that’s as glaring a “from pig to man, and from man to pig” moment as you’ll ever get." - Nick Cattogio

"He is not the only American citizen inadvertently caught up in the ICE raids. Moreover, noncitizens legally in the country have also been targeted for removal." - David Koyzis
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"One recent report in the San Francisco Chronicle concerns Miguel Silvestre, who was born in Stockton, California, but more than once has been targeted for removal, based, it appears, solely on his name and ethnic roots."

"He and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth are unfathomably ignorant about modern warfare. Such a move could lead not just to a lot of pointless death but to unpredictable chaos.”

"But any land war, which is what it would take to generate such a distraction, will be difficult and unpredictable."

"They had no idea things had been going so bad for the army. The news had been long hidden from them. The psychological shock was immense.”