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Originally Posted by Jaggy001
Suely you don't expect these armchair warriors to actually risk their own lives
Of course not. Make their presence on the frontlines mandatory and we'll be a much more peaceful nation and can turn our attentions towards our own problems.
Invading Iran now or in the future would be about as stupid an action we could possibly take. The Iranians, even the fanatics running the place, are not our enemies. There is no reason for an attack except to steal their oil and gas reserves or protect the Monarchs of Saudi Arabia or the Likud nut cakes in Israel. This people are not our friends and should be left alone to find their own fates.
In addition we should withdraw from the endless morass of Afghanistan. Let the market determine who eventually controls the Central Asian petroleum reserves. They are none of our business.
Invading Iran now or in the future would be about as stupid an action we could possibly take. The Iranians, even the fanatics running the place, are not our enemies. There is no reason for an attack except to steal their oil and gas reserves or protect the Monarchs of Saudi Arabia or the Likud nut cakes in Israel. This people are not our friends and should be left alone to find their own fates.
In addition we should withdraw from the endless morass of Afghanistan. Let the market determine who eventually controls the Central Asian petroleum reserves. They are none of our business.
i agree that we should not invade iran, unless they attack us. if we were going to invade iran, we should have done it in 1979 when they took our embassy people hostage. had we done that then, we may not be having the problems with islamofacist extremists now.
The CIA and British intelligence overthrew democractically elected Mossedegh in the 1950s. Then we installed the Shah. When he wasn't doing what we wanted we threw him out and put in the Ayatollahs. You people i.e. my fellow Americans need to know your history a little better. Iran is a perfect example of how we as a country have been meddling in the affaris of other countries since WWII. This is one reason, and the most important reason why the middle east and much of the world is a mess. We are picking up where the British left off. We hamstrung Mexico by devaluing their currency. We broke up Yugoslavia and are now occupying Bosnia with Camp Bondsteel. We will be in Iraq and Afghanistan until the oil runs dry. We will go to war with Iran. The US government and our foreign policy under Kissinger has been calling for war with Iran for decades.
And the your kids and my kids will be cleaning up the mess that's going to result from selling Saudia Arabia $60 billion of arms and weapons. Osama was a construct of the CIA. We supported Saddam against Iran. We will never learn.
The CIA and British intelligence overthrew democractically elected Mossedegh in the 1950s. Then we installed the Shah. When he wasn't doing what we wanted we threw him out and put in the Ayatollahs. You people i.e. my fellow Americans need to know your history a little better. Iran is a perfect example of how we as a country have been meddling in the affaris of other countries since WWII. This is one reason, and the most important reason why the middle east and much of the world is a mess. We are picking up where the British left off. We hamstrung Mexico by devaluing their currency. We broke up Yugoslavia and are now occupying Bosnia with Camp Bondsteel. We will be in Iraq and Afghanistan until the oil runs dry. We will go to war with Iran. The US government and our foreign policy under Kissinger has been calling for war with Iran for decades.
And the your kids and my kids will be cleaning up the mess that's going to result from selling Saudia Arabia $60 billion of arms and weapons. Osama was a construct of the CIA. We supported Saddam against Iran. We will never learn.
Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away We are the biggest problem in the Middle East. We have through our cruelty and violence created and legitimized the Mahmoud Ahmadinejads and the Osama bin Ladens. The longer we lurch around the region dropping iron fragmentation bombs and seizing Muslim land the more these monsters, reflections of our own distorted image, will proliferate. The theologian Reinhold Niebuhr wrote that “the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.” But our hypocrisy no longer fools anyone but ourselves. It will ensure our imperial and economic collapse. Reckoning at Coal River | CommonDreams.org
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