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Republican voters, urged on by the Republican candidates, are now eager to bomb anywhere that has a Muslim-sounding name regardless of whether it comes from a cartoon. While the poll itself may be amusing, its not exactly surprising given the cartoonish levels of tough-guy militarism that spews from the mouth of every Republican candidate as they try to one-up each other on who would start more wars harder and quicker.
Ted Cruz has spent the past two weeks calling for a carpet bombing of the Middle East in an attempt to destroy Isis, saying he wants to see if sand can glow in the dark. He defended this call on national television Tuesday while outright avoiding the question of whether that means hes prepared to kill the hundreds of thousands of civilians that live in Isiss de-facto capital of Raqqa, Syria.
Donald Trump, in between his calls for banning Muslims here at home, also called on American forces to commit war crimes by killing the families of terrorists. His meaningless calls to bomb the shit out of Isis naturally have led all the other candidates to trip over each other in an attempt to find more and more colorful adjectives to describe how their bombs would look.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/18/republicans-are-so-bullish-on-war-that-30-percent-would-bomb-a-fictional-country
Although, honestly, if they're happy bombing fictional countries with fictional bombs, I have no problem with that if it keeps them happy.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)"A poll on Friday by Public Policy Polling perfectly encapsulates the Republican presidential race so far: 30% of Republican primary voters nationally say they support bombing Agrabah. That would be the fictional country in Aladdin."
I'll put it on my car. Payback time.
Tab
(11,093 posts)"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)Tab
(11,093 posts)What a cloistered life we live.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But let's not be too smug. I believe the same poll shows 19% of self-identified Democrats would also bomb Agrabah.
Chemisse
(30,813 posts)former9thward
(32,025 posts)Any real difference? Not really.
Tab
(11,093 posts)Not everyone there is running with reality. Above 20% I start paying attention.
As Stephen Colbert said (paraphrased) at the White House Correspondent's Dinner, warning George Bush about polls, that he should "be careful drinking the last third in the poll numbers (Bush polls were in the toilet) because usually that's backwash".