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^ I agree with a lot of that, but some of it is a little too paranoid for my liking. I think it gives America way too much credit - at the top they are not competent, aligned, and organized enough to make such logical decisions!! lol....
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cheney's energy task force. important decisions like this wouldn't be left in the hands of elected officials.
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America has wasted far too much energy on Iraq - they do not have enough left to attack anyone else (let alone Iran) without inflicting a heavy price at home and i think they know it.
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the conflict would be night and day. iraq is intended to be a staging area, a huge base (ironically the rough translation of al-quaeda... though i hear it's a crude reference to an arabic toilet humour joke), a permanent stirred-up civil war that serves as an excuse for the MASSIVE bases being built partly by - you guessed it - bin laden brothers construction company.
the iranian conflict would be mostly with proxy armies that the neo-cons insist they can create in iran, as well as currently friendly terrorists like the MEK and the PKK remnants.
think airstrikes, think deep insertions by special forces, don't think total occupation of the entire country.
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Originally Posted by Claeren
IMO, the only thing that causes this scale of war is if America starts to fall apart economically before it happens, but i don't think that inversely this war will be what causes it fall apart in the first place.
Claeren.
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the collapse many believe is written. it's coming. what sets off the straw on the camel's back, is anyone's guess.
will the collapse be because of the war, or will the war be because of the collapse? does it really matter?