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8 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - No Easy Answers · 0 replies · 0 points
Doug, you ought to Google "Bosnian genocide".
8 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - GOP Debate: The Triump... · 1 reply · +2 points
At his best Trump is an anti-interventionist who says he wants to keep all US boots on the ground in the home country. But he is a dangerous racist who talks about mass deportations and religion bans and concentration camps and controlling the internet. No one who loves liberty wants to live in that future.
Trump is also impetuous and unpredictable - a dangerous combination in someone who would have the gold codes. As much as we need a non-interventionist President, even more we need a President who the Russians and Chinese can count on not to launch a nuclear first strike. Is that Trump? As bad as the neocon wars in the Middle East have been, the movement must remember that the worst case scenario is a nuclear war.
In the 1960's Kennedy and Khruschev set up the hotline so that the American President and his Soviet or Russian counterpart could reach each other at any time in a crisis to prevent World War III. I assume we have similar communication with China. Is Trump ready for that responsibility? And even if he is, could the leaders of the other nuclear powers depend on Trump and predict his behavior in a crisis? This is what it takes for a great power to survive in a nuclear armed world.
Rand Paul needs to come home. His ill-advised tilt to the neo-cons backfired badly. The neocons realize he is a phony and his base knows him as a sellout. Rand lost 85% of his support in the polls, he is around 2% and still sinking. Rand is no longer is a serious contender for the nomination and that may be a good thing. Rand can still play a positive role in this campaign if he returns to his roots. He has nothing to lose by supporting the Iran deal, denouncing the War Party and telling the truth about the Israel lobby. Rand could use his campaign as a national platform to stump for the libertarian non-interventionist values his father champions. If he transforms himself his standing will rise in the polls. Maybe even enough to become a contender. But if not, an unleashed son of Ron Paul could make the road easier for anti-interventionists in Congress and pave the way for an antiwar candidate in 2020.
The big question from this debate is will Rand stop playing footsie with the movement and the voters and have the courage to speak up for what he once said he believed.
8 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Adolf, Amin, and Bibi · 1 reply · +13 points
8 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Drones, Torture, and t... · 0 replies · +1 points
An absolutely brilliant observation, Lucy!. We must accept that we have to live with the consequences of our ancestors' mistakes in the Middle East. The cultural collision between West European Christian and Islamic civilization in the Middle East goes back to the Crusades and has engendered resentment and hatred that will take generations to cure. The healing will be a process, not an event, and can only begin after the West disengages and lets the people of the Middle East determine their own destiny..
Further American or European intervention, no matter how well intended, will only increase the hated and resentment that engenders terrorism. Healing the wounds will take time, but we can't keep picking at the scab.
8 years ago @ Antiwar.com Blog - Ron Paul: Israeli Nucl... · 0 replies · +2 points
8 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Voters Should Demand a... · 0 replies · +1 points
You don't understand the law of blowback.
Imagine if the anti-slavery British invaded the United States around 1860 to end slavery. Americans of all beliefs would have united to fight the British. The abolitionist movement would have been destroyed. And the racists who later joined the Ku Klux Klan would probably have been fighters in a patriotic resistance to end British tyranny. And slavery probably would have continued into the 20th century.
US interference in the civil war in Afghanistan created al-Quaida. The US invasion of Afghanistan strengthened the Taliban and spread it to Pakistan. The US invasion of Iraq created ISIS. US and NATO intervention in Ukraine led to the rise of the fascists who are now trying to take over the country.
More US intervention will make things worse, not better.
8 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Trump vs. Jeb · 0 replies · +19 points
8 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - The New Cold War and t... · 1 reply · +1 points
The "chosen people" and "master race" are similar concepts and lead to similar outcomes. Just like other notions of divinely revealed truth or pseudo-scientific natural supremacy led to the Crusades, Jihads, Manifest Destiny and the African Slave Trade.
Yes, Israel is an aggressively racist country but there is bad stuff happening in the Congo and Sri Lanka, etc. So what makes Zionists more dangerous than the equally racist Boko Haram,etc? It is because the Zionists have nukes and a tremendous influence over the US federal government which they use to get the US to fight wars against Zionism's enemies. . In the 21st century the Zionists are the only racists who have repeatedly dragged the US into unnecessary and unjust wars and who are now trying to set up a war between the US and Iran.
So who wins the prize for being the worst Nazi?. It still depends on whether you ask Palestinians, Jews, Armenians, Congolese, Sioux, Cherokees, Timorese, Tamils, Irish, Bengalese, Tutsis or Hutus. The worst genocide is always the one where your family or your ethnic group were victims.
As for the young male immigrants, half the human race was or will be young males at one time or another. There are good and bad apples. But that is a longer discussion.
I apologize for misconstruing your monkey boy reference. I look forward to reading your future stuff. Best regards,
8 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - The Settlers' Prussia · 0 replies · +1 points
I appreciate that Uri is doing the best he can, but it is the majority of Israeli Jews who elected Netanyahu and his fellow war criminals. You can't blame it all on the settlers.
And it is not Netanyahu and his cronies. All the Zionist parties, including the so-called opposition, are committed to manipulating the US into a war with Iran while keeping the Palestinian people in captivity and the region in chaos.
That is why I hope Antiwar.com starts to publish some articles by Palestinian activists who are risking their lives to fight Zionism in their homeland.
8 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - The New Cold War and t... · 1 reply · +2 points