2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAre the Hawks actually talking about going to war
in Iran?
What - permanent war?
teddy51
(3,491 posts)can for an attack on Iran.
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)cilla4progress
(24,766 posts)Wonder if Obama has the cojones to hold them off.
Hippo_Tron
(25,453 posts)After the Iraq clusterfuck, the Neocon nation-building type war has gone out of fashion. This is more of a Henry Kissinger type of solution.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)the main reason is we can`t afford to piss off south east asia and china
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)now that they've got Iraq's (and control of the pipelines)
saras
(6,670 posts)Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)They live for this.
cilla4progress
(24,766 posts)I don't believe Obama would support taking military action in Iran, and ALL of his top advisers - military and civilian - are opposed (as I understand it). I'm "assuming" he will do the sane thing and resist the PUBLIC and NEO-CON pressures to go in?
What the H is wrong with the majority of Americans who say, according to polling, that they want to attack Iran? This, immediately after the downturn in support for our junket in Iraq?
Honestly, I attribute these ridiculous dangerous attitudes to the defunding of public education: our populace seems to be uneducated, unaware, ignorant, and to have very poor judgment, much less memory! The rest of the world scorns these attitudes in us.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)PNAC = http://www.newamericancentury.org/
"Think tank" (if you want to call it that) that dreamed up the Bush Doctrine of preemptive war. In places where oil exists, that is.