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Beerman

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Not quite zero coverage, but ...


There's always been a fair amount of selectivity about what parts of the world we were interested in policing. I don't think "all of it" was ever particularly on the table. It always had to do with which national interests were in vogue at the time.

Much of Sub-Saharan Africa has been shit show for decades, for example, but outside of American contributions to UN forces we've never had much of a presence there. My first response to the soldiers killed recently in Niger wasn't "Oh look, Trump's Benghazi" (it isn't, remotely), but rather "Wait, we've got troops in Niger?"

(In response to this post by WahooMatt05)

Posted: 10/19/2017 at 3:34PM



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  Not quite zero coverage, but ... -- Beerman 10/19/2017 3:34PM
  Those stories take away coverage of Trump tweets ** -- Tuckahokie 10/19/2017 3:26PM
  More -- hoothat 10/19/2017 2:25PM
  No we didn't -- hoothat 10/19/2017 2:27PM
  Agreed and I don't know what it accomplishes -- Faz d. Hoo 10/19/2017 3:48PM
  Lol. -- hoothat 10/19/2017 7:43PM
  I'm not seeing the humor here. ** -- VAGentleman05 10/19/2017 8:13PM
  Naivety is funny to me. -- hoothat 10/19/2017 8:51PM
  Yet quite a number of cities manage to make it work ** -- Faz d. Hoo 10/19/2017 5:51PM

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