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  1. Mar 2020
    1. Why not pass a bill that required all employers to provide paid sick leave and then force Republicans to explain their objections to the public?

      because democrats are genuinely awful at debate

    1. “We won’t cooperate with the I.C.C. We will provide no assistance to the I.C.C. And we certainly will not join the I.C.C. We will let the I.C.C. die on its own.” He added, “If the court comes after us, we will not sit quietly.”

      the sigar investigations were purely designed to make the pentagon more seamlessly functional and technocratically sound. pompeo's hate of ICC criminal investigations into us war crimes in AF gives the game away. us war makers, and auditing agencies they sponsor to conduct periodic oil changes to imperialism, are antagonistically opposed to Actual accountability/reflection. they rather invade the hague than go to jail for violating international law

    1. effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of current and future reconstruction efforts through comprehensive, evidence-based analysis of the U.S. engagement in Afghanistan since 2001

      improve the "effectiveness and efficiency" and sustainability of reconstruction efforts, a concession of future nation-building projects

    2. improve efforts in current and future operations.

      sigar aggregates input data for fine tuning the imperial machine for future operations. lessons learned purpose is not moral reflection, but to optimize imperialism