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The Year of Transition

August 26, 2010 - 3:18 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2010-08-27 10:21:11

Trang, Guerrilla and air wars don’t settle anything. They can offer temporary fixes and that is about all. By temporary I mean until the weaker side has built up it’s strength. To get a conclusion, you need those famous boots on the ground.
Look at WW1. The Anglo alliance never occupied Germany. That is the reason there was a follow up war in ’39. After the Germans lost that one, they were occupied. Still are today, 65 years later.
All bombing Iran will do is put off the date at which they go nuclear. Nothing wrong with that.
Arab terrorism will never destroy Israel. It can and does make life uncomfortable for the Jews.
There has never been a war where both sides had and used nukes. Hopefully, there never will be.
Since war is robbery between nations, not sure just how useful nukes are. It is hard to rob a glowing crater. Not sure what the market for Tritonite is.

Of course, if you don’t want to rob somebody, just kill them, that creates a different range of opportunities. On a national scale, nukes then become not just desirable but essential. As that Iranian nutter pointed out, Israel is a 1 nuke state.

My point is that there are 31 million Americans either unemployed, under employed, or have given up on looking. Have they given up on voting? If not, that is 31 million votes AGAINST the Democrats. The traditional war to get those folks back to work is start a war. Before they vote you out of office.