tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post6757813351291714402..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: It's Time America and Her Posse Had a New Mideast Policy. Enough of This "Fool's Errand."The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-58246194081844235982016-02-01T17:04:59.686-08:002016-02-01T17:04:59.686-08:00terrorists I see terroists not reasonterrorists I see terroists not reasonStevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14162783936999869984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-23562356270339900492016-02-01T13:42:32.222-08:002016-02-01T13:42:32.222-08:00Mound asks, "Wouldn't it be nice if that ...Mound asks, "Wouldn't it be nice if that was actually obvious?"<br /><br />It is obvious, Mound. Most people let their emotions get in the way of obvious. Unfortunately, so do our political and military leaders. Tobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-4085533158881285292016-02-01T13:03:50.016-08:002016-02-01T13:03:50.016-08:00War without a significant political outcome is jus...<br />War without a significant political outcome is just a waste of time, money and lives. It becomes a murderous game of "whack a mole" and nothing else. Going along with it is to embrace "permawar" - war without end which is effectively war without purpose.<br /><br />Professor Walt reveals how our adventures in the ME have become utterly incoherent and it is that lack of coherence that gives rise to our futility.<br /><br />As I've written here for years, the cardinal rule has to be to never get into wars without a clear idea, going in, of what victory looks like and, even then, never without the will and means to achieve that victory. The corollary - don't fight wars you're bound to lose. Wouldn't it be nice if that was actually obvious?The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-27416196593871638882016-02-01T11:46:45.597-08:002016-02-01T11:46:45.597-08:00The extremely cynical side of me believes it's...The extremely cynical side of me believes it's completely by design.<br /><br />Keep all parties in the Middle East divided or fighting so they'd never really come together and become a potentially dominant economic/regional power. This way all of the US's interests (corporate and otherwise) can remain in place and continue their monopolies for profit.<br /><br />Any side effects (i.e. war, terror, bloodshed, etc.) don't appear to be of any consequence.VULT CULThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03599941686221066655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-60275292937629239302016-02-01T11:30:27.014-08:002016-02-01T11:30:27.014-08:00We must be up to Crusade number 10 by now wouldn&#...We must be up to Crusade number 10 by now wouldn't you say? Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-30978797829703448472016-02-01T11:14:36.272-08:002016-02-01T11:14:36.272-08:00Back when the towers were attacked on 9/11 I annou...Back when the towers were attacked on 9/11 I announced to anyone who would listen that a military response was a bad idea. The attack was a crime and should be investigated and prosecuted as a crime. Of course, I was regularly and often loudly told that the attack was an act of war and that we all needed to join forces with the US and bomb the guilty back to the stone age. The trouble was, no one quite knew who the guilty were until the Bush administration accused Bin-laden. Then everyone insisted we had to bomb Afghanistan and Iraq because Bush said so. Where did that get us?<br /><br />In spite of the big failures in Afghanistan and Iraq and Libya and Syria and . . . , and . . . we still have the same sheep telling us that we have to keep bombing. When pressed, no one quite knows where to drop the bombs but we need to do it anyway. <br /><br />It is very easy, too easy, to get people riled up to wage war. It is almost impossible to persuade them to calm down and think about it. <br /><br /><br />Tobynoreply@blogger.com