aww those rare moments of reddit kindness... buried deep among the vitriol and factual dreariness.

Classic authoritarian dictator MO. Chavez in Venezuela indoctrinated children by having hungry school kids put their heads down and pray to god for food and find nothing when they opened their eyes; then had them pray to Chavez and find food before them when they looked up again.

And decades go by and...

" The eagle we hold as a symbol for power and majesty. If mother eagles did not push their young ones out of the nest, however, we would know the eagle as a symbol for hedonism and cowardice. Afterall, childhood is the cradle of character and no young adult we praise as temperate and courageous started off as a “docile” and “disciplined” child. The case is rather that the parents made themselves available for the children as resources to connect with, to emulate, to help regulate their emotional states and develop their views of the world. This we recognise as the virtuous mean of parenting and such parents afforded their children spaces and opportunities where they could play and experiment, make mistakes and figure things out for themselves. For it is only through the forge of trial and error that we arrive to virtue."

Hey there everyone, I just finished and posted my own commentary and break-down of Aristotle's account on temperance in the Nicomachean Ethics. For those interested please read me here

The Khmer Rouge started the war by raiding Vietnamese villages, but the Vietnamese invasion and occupation of Cambodia, which was the vast vast majority of the war, was not a defensive operation. I don't know if maybe you're taking this as some kind of moral judgement, because it's definitely not. It's just a fact that an invasion is inherently offensive.

Die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Kennedy chose the first.

> Maybe Bush II should have read the memo?

Well Saddam was genuinely unpopular. There's a reason his regime collapsed nearly overnight and most of the Iraqi army simply fled. The problem in Iraq was our complete lack of understanding of the factional tensions and our inability to establish a competent and popular government.

I know lol, why else would they be fighting the Khmer Rouge.

They were fighting a defensive war against an aggressive and probing Cambodia that was in kahoots with China, Vietnam's long time nemesis.

I'd say it was defensive when the Khmer Rouge starting killing Vietnamese villagers on the border.

Cambodians were happy to get rid of the Khmer Rouge, but they were not happy with the Vietnamese puppet government or the Vietnamese soldiers who remained for years. There is a reason that the Third Indochina War lasted 16 years and ended with Vietnam's withdrawal.

He's not talking about the Vietnam War, he's talking about the Third Indochina War, in which Vietnam invaded and occupied Cambodia. Vietnam was very much not fighting a defensive war there.

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Wait...US "quite" or UK "quite"? Because there's an interesting divergence there.

Never lifted a finger? He and his brother intervened when King was arrested and they lobbied to set him free from 6 months of prison.

The Kennedys did a lot for the civil rights movement, even if they were also blinded by their anti-communist sentiment at times.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/the-kennedys-and-civil-rights.htm

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It held up fairly well in 1944 though.

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The Fire is Upon Us by Nick Buccola. This was an interesting book that came out a really opportune time. It explains a lot of the racism within the Republican voting public and how the GOP has harnessed it.

False Cause by Adam Domby. I liked this b/c it explained some of the political mechanisms used to develop the Lost Cause Narrative and why it was important to local political powers to have that narrative.

Until Justice Done by Kate Masur. I thought it was interesting to see how the South used federal power in the antebellum period to run roughshod over state's rights arguments from the Northern states, exactly the opposite of their later claims after the war.

Postwar by Tony Judt. I don't think there's anything better for understanding the late 20th Century.

The Walter Stahr biographies of Seward, Stanton, and the new one about Chase. These men did so much to shape the modern world and the modern American government system and they really don't get enough credit or focus. Stahr's biographies are fascinating.

Thanks so much! Never heard of this podcast before. 3 episodes into season one (Iraq). Really really great podcast.

(1)How was Che a coward when he literally put himself in harms way all the time?

(2)Who did Che murder? Che played a role in the 1959 trials of the Cuban Revolution and many scholars and historians agree that the people being tried were Batista war criminals ironically enough who were guilty of torture and murder. Which isn't that different from what the allies did at Nuremberg and Tokyo.

I agree he was ruthless and i radically disagree with him on that as well as his use of capital punishment which I strongly oppose. But how does what he did constitute murder.

The Soviets weren't going to send anything. They were utterly shocked that the Bay of Pigs invasion failed. All they were prepared to do for Castro was use his inevitable demise as propaganda material.

There's a reason Castro always distrusted the Soviets and charted his own course. He knew damn well he'd be hung out to dry the second supporting him wasn't convenient to Moscow.

Definitely give “blowback” season 2 a listen. It covers the Cuban Revolution

They sure got him back

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George Washington, John Adam’s, Thomas Jefferson. Amazing books.

People who speak excellent English as a second (or third) language always write immaculately and then apologize for their English.

Meanwhile, people who only speak English-- poorly-- dominate the English-speaking internet. There really is no justice, is there?

Long story short: thank you and keep up the good work, u/Fabulous-Fox3057 !