Jesus learn the lesson from Afghanistan. No one in the middle east wants america to bring its brand of freedom.
You don't want to be the police of the world. Fine. Then stop fucking it up for everyone else.
The Republican Party: Isolationists who love going to war.
They can't contain their hate, and must take it out on someone. The most convenient political target. And to think, Iran was as peaceful as ever just a few years ago under the nuclear agreement, but US GOP (and Israel) could not accept it. Now Iran is blatantly helping Hamas and Putin terrorists, with no hope of diplomatic relations. I'm sure this will end well.
It's politics 101 when you are unpopular to create an enemy for the public to hate. This distracts the population from at home issues under the guise of coming together in unity.
Yes. It's tragic that so many humans are this gullible, even without learning about politics, to not notice obvious patterns, and accept that they're being manipulated. And then, when an actual threat emerges, not even being able to recognize it.
Or, learn our lesson from 1979 in Iran.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) went even further, tying together Hamas, Hezbollah, and the militias in Iraq and Syria to draw the conclusion that “you have to cut off the head of the snake and the head of the snake is Iran and not simply their proxies.” There couldn’t, he suggested, be any diplomatic settlement with them—ever. “As President of the United States,” he said, “my foreign policy will be simple, you cannot negotiate with evil, you have to destroy it.”
Literal warmonger.
And they want to invade Mexico? These people are murderous.
Every time I hear a Republican say they'd love to invade us I keep chuckling because they don't realize the level of nationalism, pride and unity that we have. "México lindo y querido" is very much alive.
It may be a shit country but it's my shit country! (But tbh it's not that shitty and it does many things right.)
I've tried to explain that most Mexicans want to live in Mexico to conservatives more than once, but they're convinced that there are an infinite number of brown people and they all want to live in the U.S.
It's definitely a weird one given the economic situation. Many won't come back even if they parade in a charro outfit while they ride a horse and wave the Mexican flag in foreign soil. But I can confidently say that the great majority of Mexicans have a great regard for Mexico, to the point that they want their remains to be brought back and buried here when they die. lol
GOP Candidates Are Warming to the Idea of War With Iran
Then draft them.
It must be so difficult for them to not be at war in the region for a whole two years. Ugh.
Just a reminder that Iran is probably a nuclear power by now.
The scary thing is we're in a setup similar to Vietnam in Iraq. We could easily snowball the current presence there into a war. And for more fun we'd be fighting with the country borders while the enemy uses ethnic population borders. (We tried that in Afghanistan already)
Meta comment, but I often click politics or other links from the local feed, and like 90% of articles are paywalled. These communities are useless with the volume of paywalled material.
I used to copy and paste the article text, but the instance admins no longer allow it.
Politicians including democrats have been “warming” to this for decades. Was it John Edwards who sang the bomb Iran song? Scary stuff.
McCain. Of corse it was a republicunt.
That’s right. My bad. Thank you.
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