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the Taliban will focus on drugs rather than Islamic radicalism.
Mission Accomplished impdaddy:
the Taliban will focus on drugs rather than Islamic radicalism.
I think it's a little late for that now. We're still just sitting there as far as I know.
Obama cannot move according to Boehner and Boehner refuses to convene the House.
He has more pressing business in Idaho trying to shore up a sitting Repub congressman who is being TEAparty primaried.
Thus, we hear Boehner promising a 'whale of a fight', no matter the issue.
I don't think that he really needs Boehner or the Congress to get this done...
If he had to move quickly, it was about 2 years ago. He had even the morale to strike on Syria. 2012 was most deadly year on Syria and still no one cared at all.
Attacking now is so pointless and have no more reasons/morale.
Besides of that no proves are yet on space if govern used chemical weapons.
What's the bad if Assad win over rebels?
Syrians themselves will judge the regime.
The Syrian rebels came from nowhere and Syrian people are not supporting them.
The United States is weak and vulnerable, which is why this isn't easy.
And he can't get them home anyway. They won't come back to D.C.
Obama had a conference call with 26 of them today. That's not good enough.
Would you trust M. Bachmann with state secrets?
He needs to listen to people like Republican Rep. Rogers, one who can be trusted.
The United States is neither weak nor vulnerable, we just appear that way to our enemies....Hopefully, that will change.
In terms of the challenges of the 21st century we are definitely weak and vulnerable relative to our size. Our economic relations (particularly with China) are extremely toxic, but we are dependent on them and can't resist their aggressive push for power in East's political and and economic system (or in Latin America and the Middle East). Anti-Americanism is an influential and often defining attribute of our allies' political dynamics that affects their ability to cooperate with us. The burden of defense and global economic stability falls with us and the outcomes are always criticized. The socio-economic elite manipulate our economic dependencies to lobby more influence and push fiscally reckless "pro growth" agendas and stick the common man with the bill.
We have lots of new powerful enemies, lots of old ones, massive amounts of debt, no real economic future, few real allies, etc. The new theatres of war, cyber-electronics and industrial espionage, are comparatively cheap methods of combat that level the playing field between formerly uneven powers.
The world's only Superpower is powerless? Well that makes sense to me. Guess we should be terrified.The United States is weak and vulnerable,
Even if there was going to be a dirty war, Bush knew how to make it worth and how to handle it.And what exactly is that supposed to mean? People have been criticizing Bush for setting policies that exposed our limitations and weaknesses since the build up to the Iraq War. It's a staple part of his legacy that his wars were unsuccessful efforts at creating two pro-West democracies, one of which is being pushed into Iran's camp by its newly empowered Shi'a majority and the other of which is being overtaken by the Taliban at a grassroots level. At best, Iran will be partitioned between Shi'a, Sunnis, and Kurds so that the entire population and its industries don't wind up in Iran's court, and the Taliban will focus on drugs rather than Islamic radicalism.
Indeed. This is partially also why we need to suck China into these agreements. Giving them more power at the same time tying their hands. Russia however, I still feel won't play by the rules. China still has much to prove and knows it can do so by being a good global partner.
This whole posting is doing nothing but white washing the situation cpwill.
We all know oil is going to run out eventually, whether that be in 20, 30, 40 years or more. It will happen, and most countries are increasing their use of fossil fuels, not decreasing.
It would be a good idea to stop dealing with ME affairs and start working on alternative energy forms and drilling here at home.
Sure it will. But the Peak Oil fantasists have been predicting imminent collapse since the early 1900s, and exploitable reserves today are larger than they have ever been. The idea that it's going to drive a collapse in 2030 is about as intellectually legitimate as the claim by many of the same people that we were all going to freeze to death in the 70s, starve to death in the 80s, and choke to death in the 90s.
Actually, the first time the US government issued a warning that we would exhaust all proven oil reserves within 10 years was in 1866 - nearly a century and a half ago. Doomsayers do not have a very good record of accuracy, but P. T. Barnum was correct when he observed there is a sucker born every minute.
Obama attacked Bush (and the GOP) about their foreign policy. Obama blamed the wars he acquired as the reason for the huge debt. Obama continuously says he wants peace. Yet he is doing the same exact thing that Bush did. He is not promoting peace. And he has no excuse to blame Bush for the debt when he is doing the same exact thing. Fix America before we fix other countries. We are bombing Syria because Syria bombed Syria. It makes no sense.
I am not white washing anything. This whole posting - which you refuse to answer specifically because you cannot - is merely a refutation of the claims you are making, which are being driven by emotion rather than reason.
Sure it will. But the Peak Oil fantasists have been predicting imminent collapse since the early 1900s, and exploitable reserves today are larger than they have ever been. The idea that it's going to drive a collapse in 2030 is about as intellectually legitimate as the claim by many of the same people that we were all going to freeze to death in the 70s, starve to death in the 80s, and choke to death in the 90s.
It sure would. It would also be a good idea for everyone to agree to give up our militaries, and never wage war again. Unfortunately, the tragedy of the human condition does not allow for us to pursue the perfect to the point of refusing to pursue the better.
I think that you are right..Maybe something is happening behind the scenes that we don't know about yet..