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| Conservatives, Give War a Chance |
| 2024-01-30 |
| It's Kurt [Townhall] It seems bizarre that I have to tell fellow conservatives this, but it’s sometimes OK to go to war. We’re fighting right now, and some cons about our current armed conflict are up in arms. But war is not inherently wrong. War is sometimes necessary. Sometimes it’s not. And sometimes, a war is poorly run. For example, in America, that "sometimes" is pretty much the entire last 30 years. But that does not mean that war is never an option. Sometimes it’s necessary. Conservatism is not pacifism with lower marginal tax rates. Again, I don’t know why I have to say this, but I do. There is a strain of modern conservatism that believes all war is inherently wrong and done solely for the sake of corporations and blah blah blah blah blah. I get the cynicism. I deployed a couple of times. But this idea that there is nothing worth fighting over outside our borders is childish. It’s not conservative. It’s just lame. And people should stop thinking it. Some long overdue stuff re Ukraine snipped. ...There’s a war between Israel and Hamas, with the background being the war between Iran and the United States. We’ve just been pretending there has not been a war between America and Iran for decades. Now, I would prefer we were not at war with Iran, but Iran seems to disagree, and it gets a vote. The idea that we would be somehow starting a war with Iran is historical illiteracy. From the time Iranians took American hostages in 1979 through murdering hundreds of Marines in Beirut and thousands of Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran has been waging a war against the United States. Recognizing the obvious and desiring to defeat a threat to American lives and interests is not being a "neocon." It’s just being a con. Some would say "This benefits Israel, and therefore, haram". Israel also benefits by USA developed science/technologies and other stuff. I wonder what the same people would say to that? Read the rest at the link |
| Posted by:Grom the Reflective |
| #1 The 'Bee' has a better take. War is conducted by serious and determined people. Where are they? So many defeats in history when militaries march on reputation and equipment alone. But we go straight to name calling those who have questions and were not 110% in by breakfast this morning. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-01-30 18:41 |