Iran is far larger (in both land area and population) than both Afghanistan and Iraq COMBINED, has a far better educated populace, has far more expansive resources and a much stronger military.
Going into Iraq in 2003, Donald Rumsfeld predicted it would take days, maybe a few weeks but certainly not months. We are still there 16 years later. We have been in Afghanistan even longer.
Now we have the chickenhawks of 2019, John Bolton and Arkansas senator Tom Cotton, promising that taking out a far more massive adversary could be done in a couple of strikes.
We have heard this line before. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
They are crying wolf. Again. And it is a very hungry, expensive wolf, as they seek to offer up our brave young heroes as HUMAN SACRIFICES on the blood-stained altar of corporate profits for oil companies and the “defense contractors” of the “military-industrial complex” that REPUBLICAN Eisenhower warned us about.
War is expensive. Much blood, treasure and resources are expended. But the blood comes from constituencies considered expendable and the treasure flows into the pockets of those who own the “defense contractor” “industries.”
George Orwell warned of perpetual war. We are there.
Iran is far larger (in both land area and population) than both Afghanistan and Iraq COMBINED, has a far better educated populace, has far more expansive resources and a much stronger military.
Going into Iraq in 2003, Donald Rumsfeld predicted it would take days, maybe a few weeks but certainly not months. We are still there 16 years later. We have been in Afghanistan even longer.
Now we have the chickenhawks of 2019, John Bolton and Arkansas senator Tom Cotton, promising that taking out a far more massive adversary could be done in a couple of strikes.
We have heard this line before. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
They are crying wolf. Again. And it is a very hungry, expensive wolf, as they seek to offer up our brave young heroes as HUMAN SACRIFICES on the blood-stained altar of corporate profits for oil companies and the “defense contractors” of the “military-industrial complex” that REPUBLICAN Eisenhower warned us about.
War is expensive. Much blood, treasure and resources are expended. But the blood comes from constituencies considered expendable and the treasure flows into the pockets of those who own the “defense contractor” “industries.”
George Orwell warned of perpetual war. We are there.