where in any of my statements did i say kill iranian civilians anyway?? please show me.
Your exact words were "bomb the ever-lovin s**t out of them".
That sure
sounded like "carpet-bomb the towel heads back to the Stone Age and let Allah sort them out".
But let's give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you, credulous in the face of military boasting about "surgical strikes" and what-not, had in mind only the vaporizing of the top-secret underground bunkers where Iranian scientists are, by universal consensus, a
decade away from making even a single damp-squib of a bomb like the North Koreans set off.
Then we'll need to introduce you to a scientific concept called "fallout". To explain this in terms that even a bloodthirsty moron might understand: when nuclear material is blown up, the nuclear stuff clings to the dirt that got sucked up into the atmosphere by the explosion. That dirt gets wafted whichever the way the wind is blowing and usually ends up falling on people who really wanted nothing to do with any of this to begin with. Those people get really sick and die slow painful deaths.
Now I'm going to challenge you to imagine that one of the people spending their final moments retching in agony is not some dirty brown-skinned camel jockey with a name you can't pronounce - but rather someone you really care about. Your mom, your kid brother, your training partner - whoever. I'm guessing you would be pretty mad at the country who did this to them. You might be so mad that you'd be willing to blow yourself up just for the opportunity of killing some of them in revenge.
Starting to see how it works? We indiscriminately kill a bunch of them, and then their surviving brothers get mad and try to kill us. Then we kill a larger number of them, and their surviving brothers get even madder at us... and so on. Bad times.
So how about this for thinking outside the box?
We stop killing them. We just pack up all our sh!t and go home. [It would be nice if we left them a big check to cover all the stuff we broke - but frankly, with $8 trillion in debt, we can't afford it.] They'll probably spend a few years killing each other over who is the truer prophet of Allah and general pissed-offedness - but we recognize that we don't have a dog in that fight, so we stay out of it.
What's the downside?
Careful now! If you say anything about oil, you're tacitly admitting that the whole slaughter was about oil to begin with!
Of course, it was all about oil to begin with. So where does that leave us now? Well, we're pretty well fu#ked with the oil starting to run out anyway. But instead of fu#king ourselves even harder by wasting our money on bombs and making everyone hate us in the process, what if we spent that money adapting to what the world is going to be like when there isn't any oil left to fight over?
I won't lie to you: that world is going to be a lot less entertaining. But it has one critical feature that our present world does not.
A future.
