08-29-2018, 08:44 PM
oh and I have to add --------- because you add it lightly and with dustover, but you said Iran Nukes. Is this another version of the Iraqian yellowcake happening from Africa? That was pretty wild statement (not yours but the yellowcake) and back then ppl talked of it in hushed voices because we were still hearing/seeing planes exploding in our collective nightmares) yet now, the yellowcake is as yellow SNOW in July.
It may be semantics, the idea reactors =/= bombs, but average American doesn't know/care about that. To them, reactor IS bomb. I would go so far as to say if America went to persian gulf and threw enough rocks, Iran wouldn't have to do anything at all, let alone throw a nuke at us. Russia would intervene, China, probably all the other western powers would scourge us. INDIA would even be pissed off.
ru following yet? To avoid all this, you set up a Straw Man in advance and place him in the region as Just Cause. The attack on Seattle (which has not happened) by a band of ..................................................... Iranians? It really doesn't need to be more than that. If you see some devastation in Seattle and the news reads "Iranian Nationals" America gets up out of the recliner as with Pearl Harbor. We can't be judged, and you are either with us or against us.
You really don't see it?
The Straw Man exists. I mean, it isn't REAL, but the idea exists nonetheless. It now allows America to push pin anywhere on the globe and say "look! TERROR!" and then with righteous conviction, to ACT. Prior to 911, you would have to actually see a ship or plane with a national symbol or foreign writing or even wreckage of captured hostiles standing up for their nation of origin. It is all different post 911. A group of people hiding in a shed in suburban Tacoma is now the "source" for the seeds of WWIII. War just became so much simpler, easy to explain and foment.
It may be semantics, the idea reactors =/= bombs, but average American doesn't know/care about that. To them, reactor IS bomb. I would go so far as to say if America went to persian gulf and threw enough rocks, Iran wouldn't have to do anything at all, let alone throw a nuke at us. Russia would intervene, China, probably all the other western powers would scourge us. INDIA would even be pissed off.
ru following yet? To avoid all this, you set up a Straw Man in advance and place him in the region as Just Cause. The attack on Seattle (which has not happened) by a band of ..................................................... Iranians? It really doesn't need to be more than that. If you see some devastation in Seattle and the news reads "Iranian Nationals" America gets up out of the recliner as with Pearl Harbor. We can't be judged, and you are either with us or against us.
You really don't see it?
The Straw Man exists. I mean, it isn't REAL, but the idea exists nonetheless. It now allows America to push pin anywhere on the globe and say "look! TERROR!" and then with righteous conviction, to ACT. Prior to 911, you would have to actually see a ship or plane with a national symbol or foreign writing or even wreckage of captured hostiles standing up for their nation of origin. It is all different post 911. A group of people hiding in a shed in suburban Tacoma is now the "source" for the seeds of WWIII. War just became so much simpler, easy to explain and foment.