Haven't posted in a while, but saw this and saw Romney's response: "Romney said the U.S. seems “at the mercy of events rather than shaping events.” (Story link). Tonight I listened to a story on Netanyahu's UN speech where he talked about creating a "red line" that will somehow stop Iran from moving forward.
I think all of them are slightly deranged. Obama, at least, shows some humility in this region, but the rest seem to assume we can just "invade" our policy into place. What really amazes me about Republicans (especially) is their short memory. The Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts didn't exactly go according to plan, but here we are just a decade later with the same people pushing for another war in the Middle East to stop some theoretical threat.
Reminds me of the film, the Ox Bow Incident, where the crowd hangs the wrong people. At the bar, after they know clearly that they hung the wrong people, one of the posse says that they should actually hang the leader of the posse.
Sigh.
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Seems like the ones pushing for war have a perfectly functioning memory: a lot of them (and their contributors) made pretty good money working with military contractors in the past couple of wars. This is also true of many Democrats, but they at least have the grace not to push their own self-interest quite so nakedly.
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