The Clear Case for Staying Out of the Brewing Iran War: America and Israeli interests part company at a certain point. The time is coming.

The American Conservative ^ | April 14, 2024 | Sumantra Maitra

[montag813]

The premise would make sense...IF we hadn’t already sent billions in funding to Iran. Obama and Biden funded this attack.

[faithhopecharity]

what a shame some people can’t see the forest for the trees when it comes to Moslem terrorist murder gangs and IslamoNazi dictatorships

when a dictator threatens you, take it seriously
because, surprisingly perhaps, they often do telegraph their attacks

[Angelino97]

IF we hadn’t already sent billions in funding to Iran.

We didn't fund Iran. We simply unfroze money that was already theirs.

[the_daug]

Before the UN was 1812

[PIF]

America First means bringing home the manufacture of critical products.

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No - made in China parts are not allowed in the military and are destroyed when found.

The US does not have the industrialization needed - and that would take decades to recreate, if it were even possible, given all the environmental laws and regulations.

[SVTCobra03]

Genesis 12:3
King James Version
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

[BB62]

“Iran just thumbed it’s nose at us,...”

it’s = it is
its = possessive form of “it”

FYI

[rmlew]

Cute set of delusions. Iran has been at war with American since 1979, not withstanding the Obama and Biden administrations giving them hundreds of billions and protecting their WMD and ballistic missile programs.

[rmlew]

Neoconservatives believe in a Clash of Civilizations? Since when?

[Angelino97]

Neoconservatives believe in a Clash of Civilizations? Since when?

Since always. I recall it being a popular Neocon talking point post 9/11, and one of the reasons given for why we must invade Iraq and Iran.

Have you forgotten all the Neocon war drums calling for war against Iran in the mid 2000s?

One Neocon eventually published a book with that title, in 2011, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order.

[rmlew]

I think you don't know what a neoconservative is (or rather became) and who Samuel Huntington was and what he believed in.
Unlike first generation neoconservatives, who included the likes of Jeane Kirkpatrick, the second generation went full Wilsonian with the end of the Cold War. Francis Fukayama famously wrote The End of History and the Last Man pushing liberal democratic universalism and rejecting the idea that Liberal Democracy and freedom were tied to any specific history and civilization. This zeitgeist was behind those who wanted to democratize Iraq and Afghanistan with no understanding of the nature of those countries, their history, or cultures.

Samuel Huntington was a JFK liberal on foreign policy, but also a WASP who wanted to maintain Anglo-America, believing that our liberty was tied to our cultural heritage. You really should read his last book Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity, which was published in 2005. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order was published in 1996, and grew out of his work looking at the success and issues with democratizing countries, The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century.

PS. I would suggest that you read Jim Kalb's Conservatism FAQ.