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Originally Posted by colpanic
I'd consider myself a fiscal republican... a social issue liberal... and as for the wars, I'm on the fence.
Honestly my biggest gripe with the republicans is that they have become a bunch of fucking christian zealots... there are few things I hate more than bible thumpers.
I gotta say, Iran scares the fuck out of me. In fact, any hardcore islamic country having nuclear capabilities scares the fuck out of me. The only reason there hasn't been a nuclear war yet is that the people with the button knew they would die too, if they pushed it.
Fundamentalist islamics don't mind that... call it a jihad, and boom. Or, just as bad, sell it to every other country around there. On the grand scheme of things, I'd rather see suicide bombs than nuclear bombs.
I'm not saying it's good that we would invade them, but before you foreign guys start bashing me too... perhaps you should suggest an alternative? (and if you think they are going to just submit to monitoring... notsomuch)
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One of the things that is frightening about this is that some day countries that we don't want to have nukes will have them. The knowledge is out there, the genie is out of the bottle so to speak. We didn't want North Korea to have it, but they do (perhaps we don't know if they actually do, but we're not going to tempt fate so we're giving them the benefit of the doubt). Our world continues to get smaller and knowledge more accessible.
When that day comes I think they'll use it. We've screwed these people for decades, I don't doubt they'd nuke us the minute they have the capability. When I say "us" I mean our government/policies. You and I as common men have very little say in such matters, but we benefit from our governments imperialistic triumphs, domination, and subordination of other people across the globe.
About 2 weeks before 9/11 I was having a discussion with a friend. We were talking about politics and the topic of terrorism came up. I shit you not, I said to him that the US has lots of enemies and although most terrorist attempts had failed to that date, their would come a day when they succeeded. It's a numbers game. If millions hate you, one or two will eventually succeed in inflicting pain no matter how much money you pore into security efforts. I thought it would have been 20 or 50 years down the road, but two weeks later news of hijacked planes smashing into buildings was all over the tv. I see the aqcuisition of nukes the same way and it's a scary thought.