08-13-2016, 06:08 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-13-2016, 06:10 PM by Eric the Green.)
(08-08-2016, 03:46 PM)Mikebert Wrote: I don't approve of the Russian polity as Putin runs it. But I don't see Russia as a threat to America. Also what Russia says on foreign policy makes more sense to me than what America says. That was NOT the case during the Cold War. I can see how what Putin says applies to the world as I see it. I do not see how what America says is supposed to make sense.What makes sense is for the international community, not America alone, to not allow bigger nations to eat up smaller ones by unjustified conquest. People should vote and decide what their national status is, not fight and die over this.
Quote:Why was America so eager to see Saddam, Qaddafi and Assad replaced by an Islamic theocracy? I don't know.
Saddam; you may have a point. The people of Libya rose up against Qaddafi, and NATO acted to prevent a bloodbath. Without that, we would have had Syria. The people of Syria rose up against Assad, and NATO did not act. Result: obliteration of the country and its people by the dictator and its Russian and Iranian allies. The IS moves in to take advantage. Support for the rebels would have led to negotiations with Assad's allies to replace him with a new more-democratic state. That could still happen, because it's the only viable solution.
Quote:Why do we want an aging (and possibly softening) theocracy in Iran replaced by an extremist Islamist group, as most Republicans seem to want. I don't know that either.I guess you are saying Republicans want war with Iran, which would result in a IS takeover. Possibly; and Republicans want that because they believe in war and imperialism. On the other hand, the Islamic State is going to be reduced soon to scattered terrorist cells. With the Iran agreement in place if Hillary wins, war will be averted for at least a decade. The IS will be long gone by then.
Quote: I could be cynical and think that we want to spread fundamentalist Islam so as to recreate a far-away enemy so as to justify ignoring domestic issues, but I don't think this is really right.
No, it's not; but Trump wants to entertain us by making America great again and winning so much that we get bored with winning.
Quote: I am simply at a loss. I think I used to understand our foreign policy during the Cold War. Now it seems bonkers.
I don't think HRC's policy is bonkers. We have the choice between bonkers or not.
Better than Cynic Hero's rantings, for sure. However, I don't think this was one of your more illuminating posts. And, strangely enough, Cynic Hero voices some ideas that have more resonance outside this forum than I would have thought, according to some polls and such.