There has been a trend in wars fought around the world in the past 100 or so years. Bigger, stronger, richer and more powerful countries tend to attack little or poor or uneducated or lighter-armed countries that are heavy on useful natural resources. This is called "imperialism" folks. The propaganda war against Iran has already begun, but it really makes no sense. According to the CIA World Fact Book, the median household income is $500 per month in Iran. Unemployed Americans make more than that - why the hell would we consider this nation to be a threat?
America is bankrupting itself on war and oil. Afghanistan has been at war for like a hundred years - did you really think we were going to put a dent in that? It is the biggest dustbowl of hell in the world and Iraq? Geez, there weren't any actual weapons of mass destruction and now what the hell are we supposed to do with that place? Those borders were invented by Winston Churchill, that whole mess shouldn't even be one country. We're stuck, security is borderline nonexistent and in both places we've lost tons of soldiers. I mean, not nearly as many people as Iraq and Afghanistan lost, but it's a tragedy and an unfair use of soldiers' lives when we're sending them in to risk their lives for a false ideal because Iraq and Afghanistan aren't endangering our freedom. We aren't keeping up our end of the bargain at home, we didn't tighten our belts or sacrifice luxuries or take care of the homefront while they were gone and we barely gave them what they needed over there or what they needed when they came home. Homeless veterans does not refer to the Vietnam gang anymore.
Now Iran: they couldn't even put a monkey into space. Well, to be fair, let's look at all of the countries Iran has flexed its muscle against in the past fifty years. . . oh wait, there are none. This is a country of struggling families and an extremely slowly reforming social sphere. They go to work every day and mind their own business - the biggest party going was that year they won the World Cup.
Now let's look at how many countries the U.S. has flexed its muscle(s) against in the past fifty years. . .that's a pretty long list and basically includes an entire continent and a half (sorry, South and Central America). Getting tangled in yet another Middle East oil war is such a crazy idea that I can't even believe our military higher ups are talking strategy on it. Who is funding that one? How can we pay for bank bailouts, front everybody's election costs and wage a third war on top of all of that? Iran is not a danger to America. We've been threatening them for years, imposing sanctions and strong-arming other nations to also impose sanctions and now they are being threatened with actual military intervention and you think they're not going to try to present a defensive front? Duh. America, please don't fall for this stupid shit. We don't need to attack Iran, they have nothing to do with our freedom and we don't need to devastate another developing economy.
Puppy update - after dragging each other down the street on their morning walk because they wear a double leash, one of them eats breakfast like he hasn't been fed in 2 years and then longingly watches the other one nibble slowly until his bowl is empty. When the little one finishes, the mongoloid one runs over and licks his bowl for five minutes. The mongoloid one peed on a living room chair this morning and pooped in the dining room. I love these little jerks that hate letting me sleep:
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