patches70 wrote:If Trump drags the US into another war then he won't get reelected, period. You probably don't believe me when I say that was the most important thing he talked about during his campaign, more important than the immigration issues. Americans are not a blood thirsty people. We don't want to fight wars, we don't want to fight other people's wars. We don't want to shed or blood to replace one tyrant with a new set of tyrants. Americans in general don't want to get involved in other nation's internal struggles. We don't want to be the policemen of the world. Americans don't like bullies and we won't stand for our country being a bully if we can stop it. Americans in general want to find ways to cooperate with others, including Russia and even China. We don't want to antagonize others.
That may be true for you. It isn't true for most.
I was in the U.S. when Reagan invaded Granada. I was in a bar and when the pictures came on TV people were laughing and cheering and hugging and kissing each other and practically blowing cum on the ceiling. Now, Granada was a tiny little pipsqueek of a nation, the Liechtenstein of the Caribbean. Invading Granada was sort of like beating the little short kid out of his lunch money, but they were just so thrilled that the good ol' US of A was finally invading someone again, anyone, anyone large or small, that they were practically pissing themselves with excitement.
There were only eight years of peace between the end of the Vietnam war and the invasion of Granada, but America was just so sick and tired of that dreadfully long peace and so ecstatic to finally be back at war, even a little war, they were happy to take it.
Flash forward about 30 years. For a long time I didn't go to the states, and then at the beginning of the current decade I was long-hauling for about a year and a half and spending lots and lots of time in the U.S. I'd sit in a truck-stop, kept to myself, but I'd listen to the conversations of the locals, and the number one conversation I'd hear would be about "bombing those fuckers back into the Stone Age". Iraq? Bomb those fuckers back into the Stone Age! Afghanistan? Bomb those fuckers back into the Stone Age! Cuba? Bomb those fuckers back into the Stone Age! Korea? Bomb those fuckers back into the Stone Age! France? Bomb those fuckers back into the Stone Age! Like a mantra. Bomb those fuckers back into the Stone Age!
I don't think I ever heard anyone say one good word about any foreign country. Any talk of a foreign land quickly and inexorably got around to the subject of how many bombs would be dropped on it and how quickly that country would cease to exist. No, I'm not buying this feel-good story about your peace-loving electorate. War is your number one spectator sport. Sure, you'll settle for baseball or football if there's no war to be had, but just drop a couple bombs on some hapless Third World country and watch people leap for the remote control to switch from the baseball game to the bombing!
The rhetoric that Trump is using about Iran is almost identical to the rhetoric that the Bushes used about Iraq. Sure as a bear shits in the woods, you're being set up and molded to accept the invasion of Iran when it happens, most likely in the last six months before the 2020 election.