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Actually Obama is not a neocon, just like Bush was not a neocon, but they both have made very big mistakes and that is that they had a lot of NeoCons in their cabinet. They are like cockroaches, they are always around.
Fortunately, Obama has purged a lot of them, but they still play leading roles in the pentagon etc.
Neoconservatism in the Obama Age (http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/election/646 - broken link)
Just more name calling, with no discussion of the topic. Typical. If you don't have anything intelligent to say about the topic, feel free not to post anything.
The topic is Neocons and their foreign policy stance. Please try to keep up.
Exactly. Scotty011 is a proud member of my 100+ strong Ignore List, a list comprised of children, pouty blamers, blind partisan hacks, extremists, and anger management cases (as I've determined them to be, I could be wrong). I do have to value my health, you know.
Attacking Iran is possible, though stupid and unnecessary. Invading it would be a huge mistake. It would end our country. This Iran "problem", however, is not a neocon or partisan type of event. Our military industrial complex needs to keep its profits up. The pullout from Iraq portends some future warfare bonanza for our defense contractors. I'm sure some uprising is in the planning and/or implementation stage about now...
"President Obama’s announcement on Friday that all American troops would leave Iraq by the end of the year was an occasion for celebration for many, but some top American military officials were dismayed by the announcement, seeing it as the president’s putting the best face on a breakdown in tortured negotiations with the Iraqis.
And for the negotiators who labored all year to avoid that outcome, it represented the triumph of politics over the reality of Iraq’s fragile security’s requiring some troops to stay, a fact everyone had assumed would prevail. But officials also held out hope that after the withdrawal, the two countries could restart negotiations more productively, as two sovereign nations."
Wait a second....
What you're saying is that Obama controls the United Nations???!!!!! Dare we let one man have such power???? CAN HE BE STOPPED BEFORE WORLD DOMINATION??? I think not. I guess I'll just have to agree with you that Obama controls the United Nations and makes them do his will, because hey, Obama got mad skillz -N- stuff.
http://www.yasrsly.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/obama-speech-he-is-dead-gif.gif (broken link)
Exactly. Scotty011 is a proud member of my 100+ strong Ignore List, a list comprised of children, pouty blamers, blind partisan hacks, extremists, and anger management cases (as I've determined them to be, I could be wrong). I do have to value my health, you know.
Attacking Iran is possible, though stupid and unnecessary. Invading it would be a huge mistake. It would end our country. This Iran "problem", however, is not a neocon or partisan type of event. Our military industrial complex needs to keep its profits up. The pullout from Iraq portends some future warfare bonanza for our defense contractors. I'm sure some uprising is in the planning and/or implementation stage about now...
I know right. I am going to have to add him to my list as well.
Well while I agree that there is a military industrial complex that feeds the beast to go to war with anyone. You can't argue with the fact that the neocons are openly agitating for war with Iran. When I say neocon, I am not talking about the rank and file republican party or Tea Party members. I am talking about the neocon part of the Republican party. Kristol and his neocon rag the weekly standard are like the godfathers of the neocon movement.
No, we shouldn't invade. But we should be in a posture that suggests we can and would invade if Iran did something immensely stupid like lob missiles at Israel or try to put military boots on the ground in Iraq.
The Iranian regime will likely implode on its own in the fairly near future. The youth of the country are quite dissatisfied with the current state of affairs, and will eventually be strong enough to effect a change. There's a reasonable chance that if and when that happens we could have much better relations with Iran. But if we invade, or even engage in limited strikes on nuclear facilities, we risk solidifying our standing as an enemy of all citizens of Iran, not jut an enemy of Aquavelvajad and the Ayatollahs.
Our best course of action would be to continue to keep Iran contained and then throw a little weight behind the revolution when it comes like we've recently done in Libya.
No, we shouldn't invade. But we should be in a posture that suggests we can and would invade if Iran did something immensely stupid like lob missiles at Israel or try to put military boots on the ground in Iraq.
The Iranian regime will likely implode on its own in the fairly near future. The youth of the country are quite dissatisfied with the current state of affairs, and will eventually be strong enough to effect a change. There's a reasonable chance that if and when that happens we could have much better relations with Iran. But if we invade, or even engage in limited strikes on nuclear facilities, we risk solidifying our standing as an enemy of all citizens of Iran, not jut an enemy of Aquavelvajad and the Ayatollahs.
Our best course of action would be to continue to keep Iran contained and then throw a little weight behind the revolution when it comes like we've recently done in Libya.
Why do you think we need to protect Israel from Iran. Last time I checked Israel had a better military than Iran, not to mention Nuclear weapons. Let them protect themselves. Lets stop playing world police force.
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