/isg/ First Edition - Daily discussions

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This idea was floated earlier today and we now will have a dedicated space to actually discuss important shit. This should offer a diversion from most of what we see on /pol/ being slide and /b/tier threads.

The first topic of each thread will be presented here daily and other topics of interest should develop naturally. This is not a habbenings thead.

The US since 9/11 has pursued a policy that seems clearly designed to establish the US as the world's hegemon in pursuit of a utopian future ultimately based on belief in "American Exceptionalism" and the Reaganesque vision of America as a "Shining City upon a Hill," the form and pattern for mankind's future. Whether you may think that dollars or ideas have been the determinants of recent policy, the practice since 9/11 of campaigning for basic transformation of foreign countries and cultures has been an unmitigated disaster for the United States. In pursuit of these policies of revolutionary change in ancient societies we have spent trillions of US dollars. This was money we did not and do not have and which we borrowed from our future with the result that our posterity will have at least 20 trillion dollars in public debt with which to cope. Policy must change, leadership must be held to account for these disastrous events taking place throughout MENA and Western Europe.