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[Anonymous No.16867431]

Was the chapter where Clifford ordered a drone strike on an Afghani hospital because intelligence suggested a terrorist might have been being treated there really necessary? I understand the point they were trying to make but I think it all got a bit too dark.

[Anonymous No.16867494]

>>16867431
I personally did not understand the episode detailing Clifford's time in Vietnam, nor why they spent forty minutes explicitly showing his actions during Khe Sanh. That wasn't in his autobiography.

[Anonymous No.16867524]

>>16867494
Offcourse it wasn't he omitted the less flattering moments of his life in his autobiography but the novel is determined to tell the truth about his crimes against humanity.

[Anonymous No.16867595]

>>16867524
Did the viet cong not deserve it? It seemed to me his actions were pretty justified

[Anonymous No.16867633]

>>16867595
Anon there were children in that village.

[Anonymous No.16868100]

>>16867633
Daily reminder that you can't achieve revolutionary changes and peace without war and brutality. Sorry anon, but history is written in blood and sperm.

[Anonymous No.16868105]

Drone strikes are effective and humane, keep coping commie.

[Anonymous No.16868224]

>>16868105
>Calls me commie
>Defends the guy who is pro China
Ok dumbass

[Anonymous No.16868298]

>>16867431
Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Scholastic, whom, as much as I admire them, I do quibble with. Clifford For President had a very revolutionary-era philosophy: that if the President was a good dog, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it’s not that simple. Scholastic can say that Clifford became President and served for two terms, and he was wise and good. But Scholastic doesn’t ask the question: What was Clifford’s tax policy? Did he maintain a militarized police force? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these terrorists? By the end of the war on terror, Osama Bin Laden is gone but Al-Qaeda aren’t gone — they’re in the mountains. Did Clifford pursue a policy of systematic drone warfare and kill them? Even the little baby terrorists, in their little baby suicide vests?

[Anonymous No.16868311]

>>16868100
The US's involvement in Vietnam was entirely needless.

[Anonymous No.16868332]

>>16868298

[Anonymous No.16868373]

>>16867431
Of course it was necessary, that was one of the defining moments of his presidency despite the mainstream media refusing to talk about it.
On the other hand, the scene where he meets Emily Elizabeth at one of Epstien's parties was disgusting and excessive. Scholastic went too far for the sake of shock value.

[Anonymous No.16868666]

>>16868373
>shock value
kek

[Anonymous No.16869442]

>>16868298