Do you think the Republicans understand that if anything goes wrong

[randr]

with the negotiations or any subsequent problems, such as a major war, will be entirely on their shoulders?

[cali]

1. I believe a war is what they want.

[randr]

4. I am afraid you are right

I believe we have a group of people who are secretly "end of time" believers. They see their mission as one to bring on the final solution and end life as we know it with a "holy war".

[cali]

5. I don't think it has as much to do with end time believers as it does simple profit.

and greed.

[Backwoodsrider]

14. yep they want it all

And they will not 'share' the middle east they want everything oil and land and I think they also want to turn the brown people of the middle east into nomad desert dwellers so the white eyes can make the important decisions

[Dan]

13. I'm not sure about the End-Times, but

I do believe they want a war, but for economic reasons. War is a profit industry - the racket as the late General said. Plus, it is a cure for low employment, it addresses some social ills (by sending the young to war), and allows some career military to put a few bits of tin on their chest. The conflict if ugly allows the talking heads to discuss strategy - as if they are generals; it allows senior officers that are no longer active to act as consultants; it enables congressional people to speak about their plans for the future and what they would do different; and empowers the next would-be presidential types to state how they would make things better. And all the while, the young die... not the children of the rich, not the children of our career politicians, no not them. The children of the people that have to live in this reality based world, the poorest of the poor, the poor, the middle, and the slightly better middle that will take a chance at during a tour for the advantage of the educational benefits - if they survive.

And, this doesn't even address the losses on the other sides, our fellow human beings that just happened to be born by accident of birth in a different country, speaking a different language, and hearing the same old same old that our young children are hearing.

Sadly, there are no innocents in this mess - those that promote it; those that fight it; those that profit from it; and those that suffer from it. We are all guilty of the ultimate crime of inhumanity, war.

And I am not speaking to what is considered a "just war".

My thoughts...

[Nay]

10. Totally agree. The pub leaders want war in order to make money and do some testosterone-

driven chest beating, and secondarily to excite their religious nut base with the 'end times.'

[Shrike47]

2. I agree with Cali, they want a war.

[Autumn]

3. What the republicans understand is that the media

will absolve them of any and all responsibility. And in all likelihood Obama will be blamed, by republicans the media and the idiots on the right. That's just how they work.

[randr]

7. That is how things usually shake out but this time I am not so sure

[tridim]

9. Except the media is currently destroying the GOP over the letter.

It's almost unanimous and it hasn't stopped the entire week.

I don't understand why people are ignoring the reaction. It has been direct and brutal for the GOP.

[Nay]

12. Let's hope it sticks. It may not. Nothing stuck to that bastard Reagan. They're still

naming stuff after that cretin.

[underpants]

19. Spot on

[spanone]

6. that's their goal.

[onecaliberal]

8. They are dying to go to war with Iran. The

Whole intent of the letter was to blow up peace talk and undermine POTUS.
If it were dems who had done this they probably would have been rounded up and taken to Guantanamo. How does the fucking email story get more time than this?

[TheKentuckian]

11. That is a feature rather than a bug for them. They've had a raging hardon for war with Iraq for year

what would even indicate that any attempt to avoid such an outcome was even remotely on the agenda?

[hobbit709]

15. you think they care?

[JHB]

16. No, I don't. They've made it an ideological staple to despise anyone...

...who "blames America first" for merely noting how US actions have contributed to bad situations, even simply for the purpose of finding a solution that won't blow back in our faces 20 years down the line.

Why on earth would they suddenly become introspective when they have a media apparatus to help them point fingers at everyone but themselves?

[McCamy Taylor]

17. I think they are planning to have Al Qaeda blow up something and blame Obama and Iran.

Then they can point to their letter and say "See! See!"

I think that the US needs to keep its eyes on those 47 Senators, because someone staged this. The oil industry will do anything to get the price of crude back up---even another 9-11.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

18. They don't give a shit. eom.

[Rex]

20. They don't care. nt

nt

[tblue37]

21. No, they aren't worried at all, because as always, IOKIYAR. nt

[B Calm]

22. The corporate press will point their finger at Hillary. . .

[rock]

23. That would require foresight

So, no.

[pampango]

24. They count on forgetting what they say and do. If things go bad thanks to their actions,

they will just blame it on Obama And assume their base will always be clueless.

[randome]

25. If Bibi loses the Israeli election, they will get the blame for that, too.

It will be a beautiful train wreck.


[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
Gregory Peck, Mirage (1965)[/center][/font][hr]

[CANDO]

26. No

Understanding their fuck ups is not their strong suit.

[Jamastiene]

27. That is what they want.

They think the horrid results of their ignorant, knee jerk reactions are just fine. That's the problem. They WANT bad things to happen.

[fredamae]

28. I believe they are paid

well enough that they don't care...of course that requires a certain "personality type" to pull that off..to be Capable of standing before Millions of Pissed off people, hold your position and maintain that "in the wild-dead fish-eye" look.