The war party is positively screaming all over TV that O absolutely must defy public opinion to "do the right thing" and LEAP back into the Iraq quagmire.
Even Democrats are yelling what America MUST do.
And Dick Cheney, chicken-hawk neocon in chief, is denouncing Obama to everyone who will listen as a hopeless disaster of a president for not strictly adhering to neocon policy advice throughout his term.
PS.
On a pro-war article on the net to which I posted the comment that if we just got out of the region and let chips fall where they may the dominoes would never reach us, as they did not when Cambodia and Vietnam fell, a conservative replied that 9/11 was a domino.
Not, it was not.
A terrorist attack is not a domino.
A domino would be yet another country fallen to crackpot Islam.
Whether the risk of terrorist attacks on the US would be greater if people like ISIS took over a country or two, or even a large region or two, is an unanswerable question.
But three trillion dollars have been pissed away so far, along with hundreds of thousands of lives, thousands of them Americans, on that baseless supposition.
And, really, even if all that has diminished the risk, has it diminished it enough to justify the costs?
Could it diminish the risk enough for such vast costs?
Frankly, I think it has increased the risk by creating a burning, deathless hatred of America in hundreds of thousands, even millions, of victims either of American violence or of violence they blame on America.
And as for the ever-present argument from the Bomb, I am aware of absolutely no reason to believe all that war has diminished such risk at all.
And Americans would be absolute nincompoops to just take the neocons' or even our government's word for it.
And apparently Americans are not falling for it.
Too bad that ultimately it doesn't matter.
Conservatives are like liberals.
Exactly as they love the constitution, they love democracy only when the democracy is on their side.
Otherwise they are delighted we are not a democracy but a republic whose officials can ignore the popular will.
Or they just lie, about the constitution or about the popular will.
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