Concordia res Parvae Crescunt
Yesterday, as the Senate overwhelmingly voted for the Lieberman-Kyl Amendment on Iran, I couldn’t stop my amazement at the absolute arrogance of the US federal government.
The amendment states: “The United State should designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a foreign terrorist organization . . . and place the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists.”
Looks like this “non-binding” resolution is a wide-open door for war. Think the administration is going to pass up a chance to name part of the Iranian military as a terrorist group? Think again. I can’t imagine it not happening.
So what happens after that? It seems pretty obvious in the age of the “war on terror” doesn’t it? I, like many others, can’t help but expect this to end up in yet another, undeclared, unconstitutional war. (see overviews of war powers and the constitution here, here and here)
The Democratic Senate, although claiming to be the opposition, is working hand in hand with those insane neo-cons who are telling us that a military strike on Iran (and thus, the killing of countless innocents) will “improve” the political situation in the Middle East.
But, as usual, all the debate in D.C about Iran has been a distraction. They talk about weapons and troops and nukes and everything else, but they never focus on what’s important.
No one seems to have answered – or even asked – the obvious questions. Here’s a few:
Well, that’s the goal of this government – to avoid the real issues.
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Doug You're a moron and clrearly you dont know your military history.
I fear that our military personell in Iraq and Afghanistan will find themselves in a Stalingrad situation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad rather than a Bastogne http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bastogne .
Or to put it more simply, why is it that the US gets to flout any and all international agreements it chooses, while others can be forced to toe the line? The sheer hypocrisy is so monstrous, and yet the People of America, and certainly the political "wisdom" of America simply takes it for granted as our right as the City on the Hill.
So we get to have operational nukes ready to go and integrated into our military strategy, if you can call it that, and Israel gets nukes and India gets nukes and Pakistan gets nukes, but Iran can't have nukes! It's effing ridiculous and insane and everyone knows it. But somehow, as the mad driver heads towards the cliff, everyone in the car calls out for more champagne.
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What do you say about Iran now after all the protests? Shouldn't responsible people do whatever then can to prevent even one more country from getting nukes?
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