A Rex says:
Many have commented here at the Belmont Club and elsewhere asking something similar to: “If Obama were intentionally trying to wreck the U.S., without being immediately impeached, how would his actions be any different than everything we’ve seen thus far?”
At first I wrote these folks off as excessively partisan, but as time passes, and mind-blowing idiocies pile up, I’m thinking more and more that they make an excellent point.
What? You thought we were just stupid wingnuts? Some of us do/have done this for real, maybe. Where the frak is Habu?
Geoffrey Britain says:
The second nuclear terrorist attack upon American soil will result in isolationism, fortress america and near-permanent martial law. It’s the only possible response when you can’t strike back at an enemy without a fixed location.
Would you also consider wretchard’s conjecture? That then 1e9 in the casualty column for Islam is written? That is where I think it will end. Maybe not even the US writing that number but some other power doing so.
Russia and China are conducting a covert war of attribution against the US and, it’s working. They’re using Islamic fanaticism to attack the West and both will continue to block any unified efforts at concerted actions against rogue nations in the UN.
True. They also make it well known that ANY action by the same blockheads on their soil will HURT and HURT BADLY. They use our own open society against us is the problem. If and until DC grows a set and decides that the threat is really existential then we are going to have the same conversations over and over again. We continually, and those on this site are as guilty of this as anyone, forget that we must ALWAYS consider these issues in the weltanschauung of the people who want to kill us or we will go through the same self abusive (and I am being nice) contortions. We must consider this through their eyes and almost all of those in the US have not spent enough time anywhere else to even offer a semi-formed opinion (sad to say, but it is true).
Obama is trying to game the outcome so that he can vote ‘present’, blame the failure on someone else or make the win one that balances all the opposing internal political sides, which is impossible. So what we will see is he does nothing soon and probably waits for something else to distract from this issue so he can sneak some half formed, half a$$ed policy through on a late Friday afternoon. IOW, kick this particular can down the road, again.
