rant · moment 10 of 23
America Always Needs an Enemy
from Knuckleheads & Dodo Birds | The Tim Dillon Show #366 · #366
3 min
Tim argues the post-9/11 us-vs-evil messaging keeps rotating targets from Russia to China to North Korea, and explains how the US armed groups like ISIS against Syria and Libya only to fight them later.
- Tim argues the messaging around current enemies follows post-9/11 framing of "us against evil," citing the rotating cast of designated adversaries from Russia to China.
- America focus-groups enemies to see which ones work, with Syria never catching on as a viable threat.
- Tim describes the contradiction of simultaneously arming ISIS to fight Russia and Assad while later claiming to crack down on terrorism.
- He compares U.S. foreign policy to a drunk man in a bar who tells one guy that another guy is talking shit about him, then fades back—creating unnecessary conflict.
- Tim pivots to good news: Argentina court acquits deaf children in a sex abuse case.
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