by TroyObliX » January 27th 2008 9:17 am
One of the things I find uber-surprising, and no one else seems to be picking up on, is that the 700 Club crowd seems to like McCain based on his ability to "properly" lead the military.
But he has allready come out and said that he knows jack shit about economics. I may be a little "zany" here, but looking at the state of the world at this moment, does it look as though we need a strong military strategy or a sound economic strategy most? And wouldn't a good leader be able to handle both?
And why is it that McCain and so many others want to target Iran? Because they claim that the Iranians want to develop nuclear weapons? A "precision attack" (yeah right) to destroy the nuclear energy infrastructure, being provided on contract ($) from an allready longtime nuclear capable ally of thiers, Russia? Will any sort of "proper" leading of the military be able to overcome the sheer numbers here? Allready bogged down in a protracted civil conflict in Iraq, financially spent and volunteer exhausted, only a draft and a running up on the national credit-card is going to make this bad idea happen at all. And even then, I don't think it's going to work out too well. Iran actually has a military, and a sponser, unlike the other countries we have gone up against in the past 50 years. It will be 10 times the conflict Iraq is, and look how we are doing there. That's allready lasted longer than WWII. Pre-emptive strike seems to be a catchphrase for "waste our military on stuff that will make us popular with the Jesus crowd", because it sure doesn't sound like a good idea in any other way. Not to mention, the Iranians still claim they just want cheap energy, and have no interest in nuclear weapons. And considering how in bed they are with the Russians, you'd think they would just buy them from Putin if they really wanted them, so why not belive them? At least until we have gotten ourselves straightened out, to the point where such an idea would sound less suicidal. The entire idea stinks of stupidity and/or treason in my eyes.
And Obama wants to carpet bomb Pakistan for hiding Bin Laden and surpressing Democracy. Forgetting of course that Pakistan allready has nuclear weapons. So without even acknowledging the political irony aspects of the support we have given Musharaf up until now, and the nuclear stand-off allready underway concerning India and Kashmir, we want to add a couple of cruise missles to the mix Obama? Are you fucking retarded?
If you really want a candidate who has the best interest of the military in mind, why not see who they are supporting. Not who they are getting photo-ops with, because they have to (as in are ordered to) do those with various candidates, but who they support financially. And the single candidate with the greatest amount of active duty military provided campaign contributions is Ron Paul. Because he doesn't want to waste thier lives and efforts on stupid shit. And why more people don't support that I'll never understand.
I'm just hoping not to see mushroom clouds in January of 09'. But I'm expecting them.