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In reply to the discussion: This won't end pretty [View all]herding cats
(19,568 posts)It's not what's going on here. Who cares what someone playing a game on the internet says? I know I don't.
What we have here, what's really taking place, is the Republicans are extending their recent tactics they've used against the opposition party in the US (Democrats for those confused) to international policy. Which, if they get their way, will very well result in the US being involved with Israel (Netanyahu) in a military action against Iran. Before that happens, since Iran is an enemy of ISIS, we'll see ISIS surge in the region, instability will of course increase, which will have an impact on global oil prices (profits!), the MIC funding will be increased (profits!) due to the instability in the region and the military buildup will begin. If they get their way and it leads to a war with Iran, Russia and China will very likely be their allies.
Needless to say this isn't carved in stone yet at this point in time, but it's apparently a plan being sought out by our current Republicans in office. Yes, it's insane, I realize that. But, I'm not imagining things. I told people Iraq was going to take place in 1999, before they ever elected Bush and found the route to make it happen. They're doing it again, and this time they're not even trying to be discrete about it. I don't doubt the rest of the world is watching the same repeat performance and shaking their heads along with me.
Meanwhile some want to quibble about "gotchas" and semantics, and just pretend it's business as usual until they search for the next person to blame fifteen years from now for what transpired? Let me help them out a bit, the people to blame are the ones in office right now spreading this insanity. Now is when we (meaning we the people) need to get off our butts and make a fuss, not after the events are in motion. That's how our process works. We made that mistake before and we lost, badly. We bickered among ourselves and we bellyached about how the parties were the same and we got George W. Bush and subsequently the Iraq war. If we let history repeat itself, we have no one to blame but ourselves.
At this moment the only thing we have in our corner, the corner of peace, are our minority of Democrats in office, who seem to be aware of what's taking place, and the president. Yet, some people want to mock them because voters put these idiot Republicans in office? Will we never learn from our mistakes?