a permanent state of war? Because that is exactly what the war or terror is. You are not fighting an identifiable group with geographic boundaries. You are fighting a nebulous concept that is nothing more then a hydra. You take out one group and another group will rise. You cannot ever win that type of war. The result of which is the further destruction of the US as we cannot fund a constant state of war. We will see the US slide faster and faster into 3rd world status as our infrastructure continues to deteriorate, our educational system decline due to conservative efforts to rewrite textbooks to create future generations of academically challenged people, and the time arises when the rest of the world views the US as the true threat to world peace. If the Republicans and Tea Party crowd ever achieve lasting control of this country there is no doubt in my mind that they would not even blink at the idea of using nuclear devices because the US military will be the only thing left for them to try to control this planet. You can sit there and gripe all day long about Putin, Iran, ISIS, what ever but the fact remains that the US is the only country to drop atomic bombs on another country.
The fact that 47 Senators were foolish enough to send that letter to Iran and it became world wide public knowledge would make it clear to every other country on this planet (including our allies) that they have every reason be be concerned about the US.
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