I can’t see the Democrats considering another unpopular war right now. Trump might, but I can only imagine what craziness that would look like. There’s a non-zero chance he would ignore Israel and move assets to the Gulf states because they gargled his balls just right, or something. Or maybe he decides to do nukes.
If Netanyahu can get an open war between Israel and Iran before Jan 20th then Biden will absolutely commit ground forces to fighting that. Which is going to mean counter insurgency or even frontline work in Iraq again.
My god, would he? Even if that meant tanking the election? (If it’s in the lame duck period after Nov. 5 that seems less crazy, I guess)
Yes.
Time and again he has repeated their propaganda, even when our own intelligence agencies said Israel was lying. He always talks about a ceasefire, but every time Netanyahu moves the goalposts at the last minute, (usually by adding Hamas’ known deal breaker that IDF troops would remain afterwards), Biden blames Hamas. Biden and Blinken have ignored evidence of war crimes from their own agencies that disqualify Israel for military aid. Now he’s surged troops into the region, and he isn’t using them to evacuate the 6,000 Americans who have asked for help leaving Lebanon.
Where does it stop? We think it has to just based on rationality but we made that mistake with Bush. We thought that a clear trial of the facts in Congress would either give him the moral authority to conduct the war or shut it all down and he just ignored that part of the AUMF. Like Biden has just ignored any evidence against Israel, even regarding the ICC. So I ask again, where does this train stop? What evidence do we have that he’s working to restrain Netanyahu and prevent a wider war being kicked off by the obvious belligerent?
John Bolton, famous war enjoyer
That should be Bolton’s epitaph. It’s still wild to think he was one of the sanest voices in the Trump administration, especially when he was one of the craziest in the Bush administration.
I hope he burns in hell right next to Kissinger and Reagan.
Remember when everyone was praising Bolton for going against Trump? This is why you don’t simp too hard for people who have already shown who they are but happen to do one good thing.
Next: Liz Cheney.
I love how the article refers to Bolton as “famous war enjoyer”. I hope that catches on.
A simple translation is that war is good for their business.
I’d support every war if the first wave in was these old Republican fucks. Let Bolton storm the beaches.
Gen-Z you thought we’d forgotten about you, but we managed to sort it out last minute! Enjoy your Middle East Theatre.
But hey, we might get a decent CoD or Battlefield game out of it in a couple of years.
That was BF 3 and it released like 13 years ago. While the trope was “US vs. Russia” the maps and campaign were situated mostly in Iran.
This is funny and I hate it.
It’s all about the $$$$$$
And still Trump supporters tell me that Trump is the anti-war candidate and the Democrats always start wars. I guess they will blame the war with Iran on Biden, even though Trump pulled out of the Iran deal, antagonized the Palestinians, and did his best to start a war by assassinating generals. Let’s not forget Bolton’s “I’ll celebrate with you in Tehran” speech.
Trump is shit, but Biden’s hands are not even close to clean in this situation. He has done everything he could to allow the situation to escalate and the war is starting in earnest on his watch.
Let’s all be honest here and recognize when our team is doing the wrong thing also.
Is it possible that the Democrats’ hands are tied because the American public supports Israel and AIPAC has successfully primaried several progressive politicians?
I think they’re in a tough spot politically, the left seems to think that support for Israel will cost the Democrats elections, but there’s more evidence that if they do NOT support Israel strongly enough, it will cost them elections.
You’re probably correct in that it is a balancing act with no real winners.
It’s too bad so few seem to be able to see the nuances.
Right, because D-Day and Vietnam showed clearly that USA politicians never act against what the popular opinion dictates
Israel is the greatest threat to regional stability.
Everyone being surprised the US doesn’t want a stable middle East: Insert surprised pikachu face.
When are they not?
It has nothing at all to do with the religious tensions over sacred land or anything. This is all new since 2001. There has never been bloodshed for the same bit of land before, it is all America’s fault.
Downvote and move on if you agree
AIPAC involved no doubt.
Blows me away that so many people ignore the unbelievable amount of influence AIPAC has, particularly in campaign season
They can be in the first wave then. Put your money where your mouth is.
The people who want this have their money in Raytheon and Halliburton. So, in a way, they are putting their money where their mouth is.
Beat me to it.
These people probably care as much about the ROI as anything else
I would argue that they care about the ROI more than anything else. Always has been
Got problems at home? Time to Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran…
Got problems overseas? Time to Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran…
Look how it easy it is to solve problems, when your ass isn’t on the front lines! /s
If the only tool you have is a hammer…
It shows what a failed kind of people they are, both intellectually and ethically, if the only language they speak is violence.
Going into a war with Iran will set the entire region ablaze. The only thing the Iraq war did, was increasing influence for Iran. The only thing the Afghanistan war did, was a 20 year sabbatical for the Taliban.
The US surely can destroy major Iranian infrastructure like oil production and probably cripple its conventional military capabilities. But then what?
In the process Iran would destroy the oil production of US allied nations.
We would see years if not decades of Iraq style insurgencies.
Tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of people would become refugees, with the pressure on Europe easily having the potential to break the Union and turn the states into full blown fascist hellholes. Russia would use the distraction and the high oil price income to deliver the final blow to Ukraine.
China could feel emboldened or threatened to push for its military ambitions in the South China sea and Taiwan.
Justified hatred for the US in all of the Middle East would be ensured for another three generations to come.
The resulting global economic crisis would plunge large swaths of Americans and Europeans into poverty (and many more people around the world, that the West doesn’t care for unfortunately).Meanwhile i don’t see anything positive coming out of it. I don’t see how it would stabilize the region in the long run, help economic development or create conditions under which better diplomatic ties grow.
Won’t somebody think of the Military Industrial Complex’s profits?
Yeah that sounds terrible and all however we forgot the best part. We finally got to bomb Iran!
