"We're going to bomb them back to the stone age -"
The president said.
"Where they belong."
And there was anger in his voice when he said this, it was not a joke, or hyperbole. Although, no one really believes he will do anything he says, I do think this is what he really *feels* and I don't get it.
Why? Why do the 93 million people who live in Iran 'belong' in the stone age? What did they do to the USA to deserve such contempt and violence?
The US has destroyed most of Iran's planes and military vessels. What is more interesting is that we [edit: looking some stuff up about this, I get US meddings mixed up sometimes. The more general point is that the US has 'been involved' they don't just 'hate us for our freedom' as W would say. ]
I think Iran knew this would happen and they don't seem hindered much by having the old tools of war gone. They have been expecting this. And this seems to confound our president.
And what has this got to do with me or you if you are in the US too? He'll send the kids in our army there to die or be injured. He'll waste our money, burning and blowing it up... all while making us less safe every single day. He doesn't know how to negotiate. Only how to make threats.
If the US makes threats we get threatened right back.
He thinks because we have the bigger army we automatically "win" so much so that he thinks they should just not even fight back. Just give the US whatever it wants.
Because that's what *he'd* do were he the weaker party in a war. Not everyone is a coward. I don't even think most Americans are. But this president?
"Might makes right" is a philosophy of cowards.
The philosophy of people who would abandon their family, their values their nation if they are bullied. Though the people saying "might makes right" never think about what their expectations of capitulation say about their own values.
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