The Iranian Example
I got this video from my girlfriend's mom (She's Iranian-American, her mother and father emigrated before she was born).
Watch this and then tell me we should still be meddling in other countries like Iraq, Venezuela, etc. Meddling in Iran sure did us well.
I'd rather pay $3, $5 even $8 a gallon for gas than continue to meddle in international affairs and tinker with a world system we can't control and don't understand. We created 2/3 of the "Axis of Evil." I think our dismal record in this area warrants a halt in similar CIA and military operations and a change in policy.
We need to get OUT of the meddling business and stick to diplomacy only. Let's reform the UN and make it work. Let's institute compulsory military service, two years for every 18 year old. Let's use our larger army for humanitarian work to gain the world's trust and respect again. It's cheaper, anyway.
We've known this doesn't work since before 1987, how many times do we have to learn this lesson?
Full 22min version.
Watch this and then tell me we should still be meddling in other countries like Iraq, Venezuela, etc. Meddling in Iran sure did us well.
I'd rather pay $3, $5 even $8 a gallon for gas than continue to meddle in international affairs and tinker with a world system we can't control and don't understand. We created 2/3 of the "Axis of Evil." I think our dismal record in this area warrants a halt in similar CIA and military operations and a change in policy.
We need to get OUT of the meddling business and stick to diplomacy only. Let's reform the UN and make it work. Let's institute compulsory military service, two years for every 18 year old. Let's use our larger army for humanitarian work to gain the world's trust and respect again. It's cheaper, anyway.
We've known this doesn't work since before 1987, how many times do we have to learn this lesson?
Full 22min version.
posted by thesunwolf at 7:45 AM
2 Comments:
From my buddy Raf:
"got to stevegilliard.blogspot.com
He and his commenters, many of them retired military and history buffs, are running circles
around everybody on Iraq right now. Their short version -- what was done by the Brits pre-WWI
and by the Americans in the '50s with the Shah is impossible now because of mass communications.
There's television and telephone, which didn't exist in the colonial days and which made coups
much, much easier. Read Steve's stuff on what a fighting retreat from Iraq would look like and you
can see the Army is completely fucked unless a sane mind can get the controls and begin to negotiate
a withdrawl. In other words, what the Iraq Focus Group recommended and what W has so openly
ignored, with his dismissal of Blair, Malicki and even Jim Webb and his son."
From my buddy Hod:
"Beware of all men named Kermit."
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