A vote for Obama might be a vote for another war. Most people seem to think that Obama will not attack Iran. I think that this view is probably correct. There is certainly no way to be sure. It does seem probable that a war with Iran is significantly more likely under Romney than under Obama.
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Shane Mage <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 27, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Robert Naiman wrote: > >> Do you remember that time during the 2000 presidential campaign, when >> George W. Bush made clear to the American people that if he became the >> next President of the United States, he would take the country to war >> with Iraq -- a war that would kill 4,484 Americans, "wound" 22,490, >> give hundreds of thousands of Americans head injuries and >> post-traumatic stress, not to mention killing hundreds of thousands of >> Iraqis? > > You're right insofar as Bush never said that aggression against Iraq > was "on the table." > On the other hand, Obama has declared at every opportunity that > aggression against Iran was "on the table." > Why isn't a vote for Obama a vote for war? > > Shane Mage > > "scientific discovery is basically recognition of obvious realities > that self-interest or ideology have kept everybody from paying > attention to" >> You don't remember that? Me neither. >> >> Shouldn't the fact that the Iraq war was a consequence of George W. >> Bush becoming president, although that consequence was not apparent in >> 2000, inform how we judge the likely consequences of Mitt Romney >> becoming president? >> >> No one can say that a war with Iran would be a certain consequence of >> Mitt Romney becoming president. Some of Romney's war-mongering could >> be campaign bluster. President Bush engaged in a lot of saber-rattling >> towards Iran, but he never attacked Iran. Maybe a President Romney >> would be the same. >> >> Who wants to roll the dice? >> >> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/is-a-vote-for-romney-a-vo_b_1171099.html >> >> -- >> Robert Naiman > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
