2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhy Obama Is Tougher on Iran Than Romney Could Ever Be
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/07/why-obama-is-tougher-on-iran-than-romney-could-ever-be/260404/An Obama leadership will be great excellent if and when the time comes to go to war with Iran. Obama is well honest, spoken, intelligent, even attractive and with Him at our helm, We will have the world eating out of our hand if Obama is to lead the war against one of the world's most reactionary regimes.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,452 posts)Care to explain?
BTW welcome to DU.
EleazarV
(14 posts)He's saying that they're better positioned because no republican really wants to be seen as the next Bush. Therefore they will try to avoid doing the same things that Bush did if the get elected. If Romney invaded Iran he would have no support and be a pariah (and rightly so). But I think that with Obama in office, if push came to shove and we had to go into Iran we would have much more support.
So when he talks about better positioning, he is really saying who will get more support by donig what.
elleng
(131,292 posts)Pretty convoluted way of saying what you're saying he said!
welcome.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Mitt does not care about going to war ... its just a hostile takeover to him and the GOP masters of the universe.
Mitt and those who support him get richer if we go to war, regardless of the outcome of that war. And the American poor and middle class would get to pay for it.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)were too afraid of being called "soft on communism" and no one could call Dick Nixon that.
As far as I know, I think there was some truth to that...
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Romney isn't going to become President by saber rattling for a 3rd, unfunded, neocon wet dream war in the middle east.
And the idea that Romney would "oversee a revitalized Middle East peace process" is ridiculous.
Makes about as much sense as Cheney saying the Iraqis would greet us as liberators.
elleng
(131,292 posts)riverbendviewgal
(4,254 posts)advocated the invasion of Iraq....seems pro republican to me.
EleazarV
(14 posts)I suppose I could have misread the article. At first glance, it seemed to be pro-Obama.
Anyways I am not in favor of invading Iran unless Israel specfically asks us to be there.