Iran, Nukes, and the End of the World

i would, too.we have this nasty habit of being overly isolationist or overly punchy with the buttons... especially people who think we're being "threatened". why should this be different with unconventional arms?

the problem is, though, that there's a lot in the way of international "peacekeeping" that couldn't happen without US capabilities. but. i do agree that we could stand to spend less on our military and more on i dunno, education? i think the biggest problem with everything we do is that it's poorly organized and implemented, including our budget. our enlisted men hardly make enough to support families who sacrifice enough already, and our veterans are getting the shit end of the stick. meanwhile, we throw money at problems with no solution and our education system is one of the worst in the developed world.

there are lots of reasons we don't like iran. the first is, they want nukes which is compounded by reason two, they "hate" israel. now. the reason they want nukes is because israel "hates" them and israel has nukes (and has recently attacked syria, not to mention homg lebanon).third, they're scary persians. have you seen 300? have any idea how we feel about iran? they threaten us because they were one of the original humungo-empires. now, they have this new factor of islam to unify them with other large groups.four. did i mention islam? yeah. scary muslims. it's easy to pin the evil badge on anyone we don't understand.five. human rights. this is legitimate. they really do have some stuff they need to work on. we do too, but we don't like to bring attention to that.six. they have oil. i'm sure. if not, our president probably thinks they do. we want it and we don't want to pay for it.