Reasonable minds can agree both governments have proven to be dishonest, although Russia is almost certainly worse.
I think he's just saying he has some skepticism, which is perfectly reasonable.
I think he's just saying he has some skepticism, which is perfectly reasonable.
The thing that scares me about this the most is the attitudes of people I ran into face-to-face registering voters this year. I ran into quite a few people to would make similar statements and the interesting thing was that after a while I could actually predict pretty well how people would respond to being asked if they were registered to vote from a distance. The people who had very cynical responses looked miserable (from a distance, before I talked to them) and likely were miserable (thinking the world is crap and everyone is lying and we're all being spied on and no-one can stop it, etc) and it leads me to believe many of the people who comment on these stories in similar ways are similarly miserable.
The bad-news flood from our overly connected lives I think is starting to have a serious effect on peoples psychology and it is making it harder and harder to have reasonable discourse. In the end at this rate its going to be a small number of news-junkies and academics and a bunch of extremists and the rest of the population will be tuned out as long as there is enough food and distractions available.
What I'd ask for is this: I'd like a standard by which the government claiming "Evidence of X" from some special committee is no longer treated as carte-blanche.
I see no problem with asking for evidence from every such major government claim, and it seems it could have saved us 1.7 trillion dollars and the last two wars if we [as a public, as a country] had practiced this mentality sooner.
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It's a legitimate gripe, but delivered poorly.