to want to avoid unnecesary conflict is something i understand and can applaud, except that .....
it cannot safely be carried to extremes...
when you have a bunch of very very dangerous and hostile IslamoNazis like the ruling clique of Iran...threatening to “eliminate the Great Satan” (and other nations)...but USA as their FIRST, TOP priority...as their “Great Satan” — and after Iran has published their list of their top 6 targets in USA (NYC, ChiTown, LA, SF, WashDC and I think it was Boston)
and after they’ve broken their “deal” with Obama (A DEAL THAT IS NOT WITH USA, only with their IslamoNazi BF Obama)
then......
we will probably have to take out their WMD’s (Nuclear bombs and ICBM”s that Obama has financed for them)
or else they will take us out, as they continually threaten or promise to do, with those same WMD’s
and PatB ...is a very bright fellow but cannot cannot cannot be entrusted with American defense decisions, he is an eternal isolationist and that is what got us into so much trouble (being unprepared and having done nothing to stop) WW2. The original Nazis could have been taken out almost anytime in the 1930’s, but nobody including USA wanted to do it....these IslamoNazis can be taken out (or at least, their worst weapons can be taken out) now.....
(we MUST learn from history or else, as we all know, we will be doomed to repeat it)...
we live in an all-too-real world, and putting one’s head in the sand when such seriously dangerous and insane people are threatening to nuke us.................only leaves our butts up in the air (until, of course, we get them blown off us for good)
just saying, listen to Buchannan on a lot of things, but please NOT national defense/foreign policy. He’s a winner on maybe 500 things but he’s a dead loser on this one
“...we MUST learn from history or else, as we all know, we will be doomed to repeat it...”
Yes, we need to learn from history. In fact, Trump continuously reminded us about bogus “weapons of mass destruction” claims and the complete mess the Bush and Obama administrations made of the Middle East. If Iran attacks first then we should, of course, respond overwhelmingly. However, a “preemptive” attack will have long term results that we can scarcely imagine. But, I can assure you, the results will certainly cost us more blood and treasure than the “cakewalk” in Iraq cost us.