Once and a while I stumble into a decent one.
Do you often see anything "better" coming out of negativity?
If the truth is negative, that's the way the cookie curmbles
War at the heart of it is seldom about truly altruistic reasons.
In this country, it is often about business
I don't think that is true, I think the entire region is concerned with Iran's posture in this. But beyond that, what is it that you think makes the world run? See, I think of oil right now as the life blood of the world. Think about it beyond gas for your car, or heat for houses, and although that is a part of what makes up usage, oil is a part nearly everything we use, consume, or rely on in healthcare. You think that a commodity like that is not going to be the catalyst of war should one country use it as leverage against others?
OIL is also causing Global Warming and not a good thing
I see no problem with responsible countries having Nukes, but that is the benchmark. Do you really see a country that is foaming at the mouth to destroy another country, and actively arming those currently attacking another country as responsible enough? I don't.
I don't see Iran in that statement. Who have they attacked?
This is what I am talking about...To read this you would think that the USA was the only country that developed nuclear technology. Russia, China, Pakistan....What did we have to do with the countries that they aided in obtaining the technology? Including Russia's aid to Iran in this respect.
I don't think nude tech should have been shared with anyone, friend or foe!
As a vet myself that was lucky enough to serve during peacetime, thank you for your sacrifice in Vietnam. I also know that geo political purposes for involvement in war is never as clear cut as the final reasoning shared with the public at large. Regardless of whether you agree with Iraq or not, the fact of the matter is that we elect people to represent our interests in this country, and the congress abdicated their responsibility in the decision making process for entering Iraq, and gave it to Bush. It was only when it became politically expedient to oppose it that demo's flipped and tried to revise history.
Not true. It was and is a business war.
No, I don't buy that at all. Unless you are saying that the civilians that our enemies were killing in Iraq was our fault, and that is in my view a flawed overview. We brought a dictator down, and freed its people to vote. Their destiny is now up to them.
Conservative estimates of over one million dead Iraqis caused by the war. Saddam didn't kill that many. Wars are good business, but kill people, directly and indirectily.
Voluntarily
Now, it didn't use to be that way.
If that were true, then why aren't we still there taking the spoils of our victory?
See how much Exxon/Mobil makes on oil transported into the Centralized Distribution Network? You know transport, pipeline, tanker, refining, delivery and gas pumps. Getting it into the distribution net was why Saddam had to be eliminated. That and the fact he was selling it in Euros and could de-stabilize our economy.
How'd that happen if we went in for the oil, why don't we have it then?
We do have it. It is in the USA distribution network and wasn't in the past.
Media does much in the way of misleading the country these days.
Absolutely
Ok, so you are against war...That is actually a pretty conservative view. Beyond that though, what does that even mean? Can you define what is a "better America" outsid the box of relatively myopic anti war stance? America is more than its geo political strength.