First off sorry for the hiatus, I've been off doing adventurous things.
But most importantly the recent outcry from the media about Iran is reminescient of Iraq circa 2002-2003. The nuclear paranoia is the same message the American media pushed then as well; it seems that in nearly 10 years we still have not learned that our government and media feeds off of our fear. It gives the media (which isnt run by ideology but money) the ability to push for another war to boost ratings and get the American public into an islamophobia frenzy again. But what the media fails to understand is that in 2012 we live in the era of superfast social networking and they may being trying to capitalize on it but as long as educated veterans and current military members speak up, just maybe someone will listen to us.
The U.S. cannot afford another war in the middle east, it is too costly in tax dollars and human life. But this will not stop the religious right from supporting Israels stance to bomb Iran. This is what I fear the most because the U.S. may not start any military type action but we will be pulled into and ultimately will take the brunt of it. In my own opinion a war with Iran is a bad idea; we need to rebuild our own country at the moment and after a decade of spending a trillion dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan while not gaining anything from it. Also our military still needs to modernize, yeah people can argue that using drones is a step in the right direction but it also can create more problems.
And what happens if there is another war in Iran? Do we stay and rebuild there as well? Do we nation build while our country continues to fall apart and we take more from the poor and middle class while the rich pay less and will most likely never have their children serve in war. In the end we need to avoid a third war in less than 20 years, we need to rebuild here and help rebuild the middle class. We need to remove religion from our politics and with that corporate money, we need democracy to flourish in America otherwise we will go the way of the Romans.
