I Should Have Seen This Coming
I Should Have Seen This Coming
A pretty stunning indictment coming from David Brooks.
Brooks, if you don't know, has been a conservative commentator for... geeze... decades?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brooks_(commentator)
I used to really enjoy watching him on the PBS Newshour when they would partner him with the late Mark Shields (now with Jonathan Capehart).
From Abraham Lincoln to Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan and beyond, Americans fought for freedom and human dignity and against tyranny; we promoted democracy, funded the Marshall Plan, and saved millions of people across Africa from HIV and AIDS. When we caused harm—Vietnam, Iraq—it was because of our overconfidence and naivete, not evil intentions.
Wow. This motherfucker thinks Reagan was actually good on the AIDS issue‽ No wonder he didn't "see this coming;" he's a genuine moron!
Reagan wasn't good on HIV-AIDS.
George H. W. Bush wasn't either.
But George W. Bush was.
PEPFAR was Baby Bush's baby.
I don't think the passage you quoted was intended to say that Reagan was good on HIV-AIDS, but rather that America ended up being good on HIV-AIDS.
Also, blaming Iraq on naivete? How actually naive do you have to be to believe that? Good lord...
Yep, dude has a long history of being a creep. Not worth promoting him anywhere.
I saw this shit in my RSS feed and swiped it read.