Reply #36: Yeah, that's kind of what worries me. [View All]

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A similar combination of insulated cluelessness and desperation.
OTOH, the cluelessness seems less universal than in those days, which
gives me hope. My general impression is that the other great powers
are willing to wait it out while we destroy ourselves in Iraq. If we
are dumb enough to add Iran to the mix, it isn't going to improve our
military situation, eh? That ought to be obvious, and yet one can
find all sorts of people that will claim it would be a piece of cake,
or that will invoke the nuclear "solution" as this dimwit does here,
like it was some sort of magic, like when Arnold stands up through the
floorboards with two giant machineguns in his hands and blows away all
the evildoers.