If we hit Revolutionary Guard facilities and those facilities that help the present economy, it's not entirely clear that the under-30 demographic you fear alienating would actually be alienated.
Anecdotal, unscientific evidence: my friend, who is Iranian, protested the Iraq War before it started. She went to visit Iranian relatives in 2004. She expected to hear a lot of support and Bush-bashing. She heard the exact opposite. In her words, "most of my relatives and their friends said that they wished Bush would bomb Iran and kill the ayatollah".
Do you have better evidence that bombing military targets like crazy (as well as political targets like Ahmadinejad and Khamenei - in a war they become valid targets if they are at a location that might otherwise be bombed) would turn the Iranian people against us?
Anecdotal, unscientific evidence: my friend, who is Iranian, protested the Iraq War before it started. She went to visit Iranian relatives in 2004. She expected to hear a lot of support and Bush-bashing. She heard the exact opposite. In her words, "most of my relatives and their friends said that they wished Bush would bomb Iran and kill the ayatollah".
Do you have better evidence that bombing military targets like crazy (as well as political targets like Ahmadinejad and Khamenei - in a war they become valid targets if they are at a location that might otherwise be bombed) would turn the Iranian people against us?
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
World Sees Obama as Incompetent and Amateur - OUCH!
19/06/2010 06:06:21 PM
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I'm not surprised. Obama is incompetent and amateur. He makes Carter look good. *NM*
19/06/2010 07:40:22 PM
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I always thought he was going to be Carter Part II.....sadly, I guess I was right. *NM*
20/06/2010 01:54:23 AM
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It's true he's not living up to the expectations - domestically or abroad.
19/06/2010 08:16:54 PM
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I would say he is living up to my expectations
19/06/2010 09:46:49 PM
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He is living up to my expectations too
20/06/2010 12:03:20 AM
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yes leadership is hard
21/06/2010 03:55:24 AM
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Hillary Clinton is the only member of the Obama Administration who seems competent.
19/06/2010 10:04:29 PM
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Well, several of the cabinet members are solid
19/06/2010 10:19:00 PM
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I always consider Gates a Bush appointee.
19/06/2010 10:29:10 PM
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Well, new 'rumor' is Rahm's gone after November, maybe it will be a trend
21/06/2010 03:32:20 AM
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I'm not saying she's incompetent.
19/06/2010 10:50:27 PM
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If we were to bomb their nuclear facilities it would end up in a general war. We know that.
20/06/2010 04:39:52 AM
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Bombing Iran would be a disaster for the United States.
20/06/2010 11:55:37 AM
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It depends on our goals and how we achieve them.
21/06/2010 02:38:32 AM
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Do you think that when the bombs hit, they'll spare those who wear green?
21/06/2010 09:36:02 AM
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I'm not advocating bombing if it doesn't achieve anything.
21/06/2010 02:08:10 PM
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Bombing Iran won't achieve anything, that's the point.
22/06/2010 11:34:04 AM
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Why target the nuclear sites? Target Khamenei, Ahmadinejad and other regime leaders.
22/06/2010 02:36:15 PM
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Well Tom get your tin hat and join up.
21/06/2010 01:07:21 AM
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Lol! You talk like those losers who vote for Lyndon LaRouche.
21/06/2010 02:35:00 AM
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So i'll take it you won't be joining up then?
21/06/2010 10:45:39 PM
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I just realized people like you aren't worth time responding to.
22/06/2010 12:47:50 AM
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You mean realised after the response
or realised but then responded anyway.
23/06/2010 05:48:37 PM
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There's a lot of buzz that Obama will dump Biden and ask Hillary to be VP in 2012
20/06/2010 01:56:14 AM
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Isn't it a BIT early to talk about Obama going through a primary?
20/06/2010 03:16:06 AM
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I started to have trouble taking this seriously somewhere during the first sentence. *NM*
19/06/2010 10:33:48 PM
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A lot of us who had seen Tony Blair, thought we weren't seeing anything new.
21/06/2010 12:49:35 AM
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Re: A lot of us who had seen Tony Blair, thought we weren't seeing anything new.
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Re: A lot of us who had seen Tony Blair, thought we weren't seeing anything new.
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