With I think two exceptions, all the Republican and Democratic candidates want to keep provoking terrorists and I don't like it. Why would we vote to keep kicking the hornet's nest?
It all comes down to the fear of allowing Iran develop nukes with the certainty that they will distribute them to terrorists who will sneak them over here in a pop machine and blow up a football stadium in Baltimore.
Here's what I think the deal is...Politicians (Hillaruliani) want to be president, but they are terrified to go down in history as the first president to allow a nuclear strike on one of our cities. Did you see what I did there...TERRIFIED. I'm pretty sure this is evidence terrorism is working. There are several flaws with that thinking.
1. Terrorism is a tactic. You can't have a war against a tactic. There are unintended consequences and civilian deaths.
2. Civilian deaths = more terrorists.
3. More terrorists = more of a mandate to "fight" terrorism. It's like job security for politicians on a depraved, evil, global scale.
I'm sorry, but this seems to spell disaster. There is nothing I detest more than a nutty conspiracy theorist, but I have to be skeptical when it's apparent that a politician could so easily gain popularity and power while at the same time putting the people at a greater risk.
"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach." -Adolf Hitler
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Well said. But now I'm curious... how do you think we handle the Iran situation?
Glad you asked, me. I think we can learn from past conflicts on this one.
When, ironically, the Republicans were elected to get us out of Vietnam in 1968, Nixon ended up provoking additional violence by, among other things, dropping 2,750,000 tons of bombs over neutral Cambodia (result: Kent state/world not so likey). We left and now we trade with Vietnam.
If we plan to protect our national security, let's withdraw asap from not just the mid-east, but everywhere. We still have troops in Korea and even Germany. Time to come home and protect OUR borders.
We will incite more hatred and more blowback by continuing a foreign policy of interventionism than we will by leaving (which will cause some hatred itself).
As the last remaining superpower, we owe it to ourselves to set an example of peace. When that isn't possible, we absolutely cannot be the ones doing the provoking. And, we really don't need to fear these third-world countries, especially if we aren't accidentally killing their civilians.
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