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we've all been speculating about whether/when the madmen will pull the trigger on yet another war of aggression. They had planned, after all, to do six countries by now and are stalled at only two, with neither of those done. I suspect that they'll roll the dice and go after Iran in a last ditch effort to get back on plan, with the expectation that the resulting chaos and uncertainty will somehow make the electorate start saying sir, yes sir! That would be their gamble, anyway. But, assuming we can't do anything to stop it, what MIGHT the result be? Might that finally be the "tipping point?" It would be a big enough event - far bigger than invading Iraq - that it is impossible to predict the result. It would be a discontinuity in the sequence of events. Kind of like when the comet hit and evolution of dinosaurs stopped. It would be "all bets are off."
Might it throw everything so wide open that impeachment happens? Might it be the trigger to make Gore say "ok, I gotta do it?" Might it cause wholesale revolution? Or might pigs fly?
I still find it hard to believe that having failed so miserably with the shock and awe low-budget, small troop commitment in-and-out approach, they would try the same damned thing on a country many times larger, with a many times larger military. And there is no way they can launch a 500,000-person assault. They can't even staff the Iraq/Afghanistan things. Sure there is plenty of air power, and they could "bomb them back to the stone age" but then it would be just fold your arms and watch the smoke rise. Are they THAT nuts?
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