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Originally Posted by SuzeQuze
Jyqm, I hope you are right though and that they do know that they cannot possibly extend us into another war. I feel like they do not have their feet on the ground enough to see this though.
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They do. They're stupid and myopic, but they're not
that stupid and myopic. Their main goal, after all, is to amass power and hold onto it. At the moment, they've amassed a ****load, but holding onto it is starting to look like it might be a bit of a problem. They're being bombarded with questions from left and right,
nobody thinks that Iraq is going well, and they're actually getting nervous about mid-term elections.
Just look at how cowed their rhetoric has become in comparison to just a year ago. Look at the State of the Union address - no real initiatives, no calls to any kind of action, just a bunch of not-really-saying-anything about various domestic issues and a reiteration of the "stay the course in Iraq and everything will eventually get better" mantra. This was a placeholder speech - let's just try and keep things from totally falling apart and maybe people will stop noticing how much we've screwed up.
Quite frankly, I think they're scared ****less that this cartoon controversy might really get out of hand, or that Iran and/or Hamas might prove to be real threats. Because even if there are legitimate threats, they know that Americans simply aren't going to support anymore foreign incursions against brown people right now, and they're going to pay for it big time come November if it comes to that.