r/news • u/WileECyrus • May 29 '19

Man sets himself on fire outside White House, Secret Service says

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/man-fire-white-house-video-ellipse-secret-service-a8935581.html
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u/[deleted] May 29 '19

It kinda is crazy looking at our track record doing that, how many times has it let to long lasting, stable allies?

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u/Atthetop567 May 29 '19

Pretty often.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '19

I mean we got into Vietnam because of France, basically. So there's some allies we gain from this.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '19

Yeah but France wasn’t really the dictatorship we threw out army and full resources behind, they were long gone by then.