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The U.S. goes to war with this country, ostensibly over "WMDs" which are never found
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Iraq
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The CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion fails in this country
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Cuba
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The federal government botches the response to this 2005 natural disaster
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Hurricane Katrina
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Congress and the American public develop an unhealthy obsession with Bill Clinton's sex life, particularly his affair with this intern
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Monica Lewinsky
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The U.S. starts a war with this country in 1898, provoked mostly by yellow journalism
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Spain
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This 1925 trial in Tennessee sees a high school teacher charged with teaching human evolution
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Scopes Trial
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Nearly 300 Lakota Indians are victims of this massacre in 1890
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Wounded Knee
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Photos of detainee abuse at this prison are released in 2006
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Abu Ghraib
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From 1692 to 1693, 20 people are executed for witchcraft in this Massachusetts town
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Salem
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Nathan Bedford Forrest and others form this organization in 1865 to promote white supremacy
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Ku Klux Klan
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At the height of the Red Scare, this senator leads sensationalist attacks against alleged Communists
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Joseph McCarthy
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In 1857, this slave sues for his freedom but is told by the Supreme Court that he can not be a US citizen due to his race and status as property
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Dred Scott
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After appearing to win the Tour de France multiple times, this man is found guilty of cheating
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Lance Armstrong
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This city is captured and burned by British troops in 1814 following the Battle of Bladensburg
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Washington D.C.
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In response to French opposition to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Congress renames the french fries served in its cafeterias to this
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Freedom Fries
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After a bungled intervention by the federal government, followers of cult leader David Koresh burn to death near this city in Texas
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Waco
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Over 58,000 Americans die in this war which ultimately ends in failure
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Vietnam War
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In 1830 this president signs the Indian Removal Act
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Andrew Jackson
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As a result of the above, near 50,000 people are forcibly relocated west. Thousands perish en route. Their journey becomes known as this.
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Trail of Tears
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Racist laws passed from 1876 to 1965 in various states establish segregation, prohibit miscegenation, and restrict voting rights. Collectively, these laws are known as this.
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Jim Crow Laws
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1. Separation of church and state
2. Healthcare reform
3. Abortion
4. Gun control
5. Tax reform
6. Hate speech (more specifically the definition of)
I would be very surprised to see how you approach these. I think you are more left leaning than you believe you are.
2. I don't think going with Republican Bob Dole's healthcare plan (Obamacare) was a good idea. A single payer system would be better. I don't think healthcare should be a privilege for the wealthy.
3. I fully understand the arguments of those who believe life begins at conception and respect those. I don't think there's a war on women or that pro-lifers wish to attack or take away the rights of women. They are trying to protect the rights of the unborn. That said, I'm pro-choice, though I'd be willing to accept some restrictions.
5. Horse and sparrow economics is proven to not work. Short-term gains for oligarchs should never be prioritized over the general health of the economy, which is driven mostly by having a large and healthy middle class. But I'm fiscally conservative and not a fan of government waste.
6. Free speech is a sacred value and vital part of a functioning democracy and free society. Being protected from hurt feelings is not a right. Everyone has a right to an opinion, even unpopular or hateful ones.
How many times have *you* been accused of being a raging liberal, I wonder? Or do you line up almost perfectly with the political right and therefore only ever get accused of being on one side? Because I get accused of being on both. Which means I'm not on either.
Of course they did, funded and created both of these terrorist organizations. The embarrassing part about Afghanistan is that the same guys they supported and funded against USSR during the 80s, now became enemies in a guerila war that ultimately can't be won. Of course, the lucrative part are the natural resources of Afghanistan and it's strategically important position. They can't let it go now, since China became highly interested in that area, but that's another topic.
There was definitely no genocide on Kosovo, Serbian police and military fought with an ISIS-like organization KLA. The "mass murder" in Racak that ultimately triggered the bombing was later proved to be fabricated, but it didn't matter, since the job was already done. The bombing happened without permission of the UN.
As the violence grew and the crackdown turned in to civil war, lots of foreign aid, arms, and fighters began pouring in to Syria. But, at least at first, none of this was coming from the US. It was mostly from other Muslim countries, and soon both inside and outside Syria there was a complex web of tangled loyalties and motivations driving things.
However, in spite of this caution and frequent second-guessing, the situation progressively deteriorated further and further, loyalties shifted, factions merged or disbanded or changed leaders, and eventually many of the more radical and hardline Sunni Islamist fighters in Syria coalesced into the Islamic State. Exactly what the US wanted to avoid.
As far as bombing goes, it's an enormous stretch to call these war crimes, especially the bombing that Trump authorized, which was probably coordinated with his masters in the Kremlin and caused no serious damage. It was just a PR stunt and distraction.
Anyway, if you look at the whole series I did on the subject, there is a question on one of the installments about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War 2. And the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which I consider in part motivated or justified by racism. If I were to add anything else it might be about the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
But as far as racial inequality in the present goes, America in reality has very little. Historically? Sure. Though not really any more than many other multi-ethnic nations with a colonial past. But presently? The US is a contender for most racially equitable and non-racist country in the world. Though it is a terrible shame that obsession and hyperfocus on race issues the past 10-15 years has led to a sharp social and cultural regression, and given many both there and abroad the false impression that things are very much worse than they really are, while simultaneously making them worse. But this focus on race issues is the result of Americans feeling that racial equity matters. Many other countries simply don't even care to address it.
I tried "walk" of tears, "march" of tears, "road" of tears - just couldn't quite get it out from the depths of my brain.
Good quiz - was expecting Watergate though!
>But others contained the nerve agent sarin, which analysis showed to be purer than the intelligence community had expected given the age of the stock.
>The analysis of sarin samples from 2005 found that the purity level reached 13 percent — higher than expected given the relatively low quality and instability of Iraq’s sarin production in the 1980s, officials said. Samples from Boraks recovered in 2004 had contained concentrations no higher than 4 percent.
>An internal record from 2006 referred to “agent purity of up to 25 percent for recovered unitary sarin weapons.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/world/cia-is-said-to-have-bought-and-destroyed-iraqi-chemical-weapons.html
Individual realization doesn't even depend over a practial belief of nation, it's just pure need of circumstantial social experience, over a credible platform to act over. I might be interested but awfully triggered by the fact that many would rather believe the insubstantial delirium as a genuine inalterable circumstance needed to ever last. The stubbornish attitudes of the man rely over its need to keep a fact, effortless enduring the acts of a severe empiric arousal of reality.
You also left out the part where these same sore loser idiots stormed the Capitol, viciously attacked police officers, and took steamers on the floor.
You also left out the part where their savior, Tweety Amin, completely turned his back on them when he no longer found them useful...which is what he has done to everyone he has ever known.
If culture continues on this present trajectory I feel like the species is going to die out within the next 100 years or so.