What happens if we go to war with Iran and once inside we find no WMD or nuclear warhead factories..... only reactor sites?
Where will we stand in the international community then? What will our "word" be worth?
And for those who take the Neo-Con stance "who cares what the world thinks of us?" I say, you are hypocrits and idiots because you believe the trade deficits we run up and the investment in our money these countries, such as China, are ok. But what they think of us doesn't matter?
That's like a District Attorney saying I owe the Mafia big money, but fuck them I'll just keep trying to convict their friends and they won't do anything.
Yeah, right, till Frankie comes calling with some cement shoes.
Yeah right as we see China and others dump the dollar for the Euro, sell our debt for pennies on the dollar and/or decide to collect.
Then what? We go to war with the BILLION man army?
We decide to nuke them and in turn destroy and kill everyone?
The madness has to stop, we are no longer in control. As long as other countries own our debt, they own what we do and we either work to pay it off or we sit smile and listen to what they say.
The GOP wants so desperately to make this a global economy, allowed businesses to leave without any fights and allowed the trade deficit and national debt to balloon to deadly heights and yet they want to say "fuck what they think of us?"....... Damn, must be nice to live in that fantasy world where the US is still #1.
I'm not a US hater, I hate what the greed in corporations, our government and the rich have done to this country. I believe we owe our country more, we owe it to our kids and grandkids to have the chances our parents and grandparents and some of us older posters had. With the way things are now..... we not only have taken those chances for advancement away, but we are leaving them with serious debts that WILL have to be paid by them. And that is unforgiveable.