@Jennifer1984 Said
You want another war that you can't / won't win and the only outcome will be that Radical Islam's determination to destroy "The Great Satan" will become even more entrenched than it is already.
Fanatics don't mind dying. They truly believe they will go to Paradise. If you plant a missile through an Islamic leader's lounge window while he's watching football on the TV, he firmly believes that he'll be knocking off virgins in heaven before his head hits the ceiling.
They aren't scared of dying.
On the other hand, there comes a point where Americans get fed up with seeing flag draped coffins coming back from the Middle East. Again.
If you kill a thousand Iranians and they kill ten Americans, US public opinion doesn't give a damn about the Iranians, but they sure get angry about the ten Americans.
You can start another war - please don't ask Britain to join in this time - and very soon you'll be bogged down in a conflict where the enemy don't come out to fight in a conventional sense, which would suit you. They will be sneaky, underhand and cunning. They'll fight a guerilla war which won't suit you and they'll ignore their own losses while watching Americans get all torn up about the casualties you're taking.
A stalemate suits them right down to the ground.
It's a very simple equation:
If you don't win, you lose.
If they don't lose, they win.
Do yourselves a favour. Try diplomacy.
Ugh, if only we had a president that didn’t act like a spoiled 4 year old.
Also I’m pretty sure as a commander in chief he doesn’t give a f*** about the lives he commands. Those aren’t his children or family, just people on a list. It’s sad.
I’d say he doesn’t have the ability to declare war on his own. With previous presidents that would hav been enough to hope for a diplomatic solution. I have real fear with this president and not sure that “we the people” can actually do much but hope and wait. But yes a war right now would be a no win situation for us and I do hope if our government is stupid enough to get in it, it doesn’t drag other countries in to it. I’m not as pacifist as you, but still I don’t think we need to be inserting ourselves in the Middle East the way we are. We are not helping an already messed up complicated situation.