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Not much information on the program today from the Salem reporter!

"I don't know" and "you know" and "whatever" are not very helpful replies to questions that were not hard to anticipate.

posted 2 years, 9 months ago
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Like domestic violence, genocide is passed on from generation to generation.  Unfortunately, the lesson too often is "this mustn't happen to me again", not "this must never happen again."

Thus we saw the Nazi's persecution of the Jews echoed
in a half-century of brutality against Israel's Arab minority and Arab neighbors.

Next a group of Arabs attacked the US for funding their persecution -
it's been our largest "foreign-aid" annual expense for decades.

In retaliation we attacked Afghanistan and Iraq.

Who will be the next to experience this series of brutal retributions?

posted 3 years, 1 month ago
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