Does anyone remember why we are a super power . DO we have anything to fear at all.?

Question

I fear the government taking control over my life more then I do Iran getting a nuclear bomb .
I fear poverty spreading and financial ruin under massive debt and 30 years of struggling to pay bills and high taxes more then Iran .
I fear a police state that monitors my activities for my own safety more then I do Iran .
Since I am afraid you would think Iran might back down before I decide that killing 70,000,000 people is better then watching my family suffer for their entire lives .

I hate war but we need to make an example of someone so we can relax and enjoy life . How many of you would support a massive nuclear attack on the middle east just so we can have some peace .
I would rather walk then have to endure an endless war with a bunch of towel headed Arabs eager to meet Allah .
I say help them all out and send them to Allah in mass numbers .

Answer 1

Your fears are very much warranted, and duely noted.

Answer 2

Many people are under the delusions that we are a super power. China has nuclear weapons, more population and right now is more economically stable. We borrow money from them. Pakistan has the bomb and might not take to kindly to nukeing their neighbors. So does India who right now makes most of the stuff China doesn't that we need to use in the US. If either country quit making stuff for us we would have no more things we need to make cars, computers. I owned a Geo an american made car that had a sa zukie engine. Make in Japan all over it.
Before you start nuking people remember that we are not the only super power in the world. We are not at war with Iran so how would nuking them change anything? Since they are the major supplier of oil to the world community and they were now unable to heat their homes or drive cars. Would they like us real well? All the president can do is make idle threats. The real threat right now and always has been is Pakistan. It has a very unstable government with a vicious military dictator, who went to power by a coue. Who they were calling a president. They have definite ties to al quaida.
Who has operatives in the US. There is every reason to believe that even as we speak they are putting nuclear weapons all over the country to have a real terror attack and do to us what you just described doing to them.
Don't you know what the bible says:
"don't dig a pit you may be the one to fall into it"
or in other words "what goes around comes around"

Answer 3

If the answer that you're providing were to have no ramifications, then I would think our government would have already done that. But there are many consequences to what you're proposing, not to mention the moral anguish we, as Americans, would feel.

To answer the question about us being a superpower, I haven't forgotten that we are, but I am also aware of other countries becoming superpowers. At the end of WW2, we were, and rightly so, viewed as the most feared country in the world. Since then, other countries have caught up to us (and mostly from our money), in weaponry and intelligence. To think that we are the only ones who have the capability of massive world destruction is ignorant. The only reason we don't know what other countries are capable of is because they haven't been tested.

Answer 4

It is a very simple thing to answer. The governing power only has exclusive power if it is able to bargain with its buying power. We avoided wars and many rumors of wars with are ability to buy allies and make our enemies rich.

Two, the ability to bomb someone may seem like a good thing to you. But do not forget that the enemy has a many bombs as we do, and they actually know where and how to hit us. Remember Pearl Harbor, how open we were because we believed we couldn't be touched. Long range missiles can be detected, remember foriegn militaries aren't as open as we are. One direct hit and a lot of our power is gone. Can we say EMP.

Last but not least, maybe we should stop looking at what we need and observe what we know. The only factor that has been absolutely accurate since before wartimes has been the bible. Read the book of Jeremiah and Revelations. God works when we can't. He is the only hope that we have.

Answer 5

I am not an American citizen but I can very well understrand the anguish of your heart.Perhaps people like you would be saviours of America and the world. But the zing of superpower status is intoxixcating. After felling the Soviet giant and seeing that there was nobody confronting you perhaps you had a strange hallucination. so conditioned you were to the idea of taking on 'asuras'.You hung yourself by your own pakard. You begain seeing enemies everywhere and finally shaped a rival worth fighting with--The Osama Bin Laden.You filled the image with somany minute details that you yourself were convinced that he indeed exists and looms over the world And now you are doing shadow boxing. You never thought that in this engagement with imaginary giants of your own creation you are likely to be unjust to your own people and yourself. The devaluating dollar is a symptom of this deterioration.Somebody was arguing that almost 8 percent or 100000 Muslim residents of the States are engaged in terrorist activities and pose a danger to USA.He did not rememberthe 92 percent Muslims in theStates who are loyal. And thus creating a giant he now goes in fear of it striking usa.

Answer 6

Your comment is rather contradictory - you make the point that it isn't really justified to go to war and we should rightly be concerned about our own government curtailing our liberties, but then go off on a jingoistic, self-righteous rant justifying a military attack on Iran. What's it going to be?

And BTW, your description of Iranians as a bunch of "towel headed Arabs" is not only offensive, but inaccurate and ignorant. Iranians are NOT Arabs, they are Persians, a totally different cultural group.

Boy, making an example of someone just so we can relax and enjoy life? What kind of arrogance is that? What did the Iranians do to deserve that? I'm more sorry than angry at your sabre-rattling ignorance.

Answer 7

This is too simplistic. We have freedom, but we are not free to ruin the war effort or know top secret information. The fact is, Iran has nuclear capabilites. There are three major sites that we know of, one for uranium, one for plutonium, one with underground centrifuges. We have gotten a lot of stuff wrong in this country, but in the end, we DO get it right, and we will get a grasp on protecting our rights in these days of new technology soon. But the fact is, there are enemies hiding among us, and how would you recommend finding them? We complain a lot, but do we ever offer solutions? Our government is charged with protecting us, and they are doing this as best they can. And it is apparent you don't know very much about weapons. We do not need our nuclear weapons to fight Iran. Using nuclear weapons is harmful to us, even thousands of miles away. We keep nukes as a deterrant, but would be loathe to use them due to their harmful effects. And generally, we try our best not to kill innocent non-combatants, even in this war where it is very hard to tell who's who. Nukes kill everyone, and render areas unlivable for long periods. Other than their desire to bring an apocolyptic situation with nukes, the Iranian government's defenses are on average almost 30 years old. They simply cannot compete with us. We would use our massive ordinance bombs which can sink through concrete and rock to destroy Iran's underground nuclear facilities, and regular scuds to hit above ground targets. Iran will fight a guerrilla war, and hit civilian targets in Israel and our military bases, but with careful planning and SUPPORT we can win, and we don't need to destroy our own world to do so. And I worry about you or anyone who is interested in sending "mass numbers" to their graves. War isn't some schoolyard game, you know. It is tragic but necessary, and it isn't a video game, there are no extra lives, and real people die. You illustrate with your ignorance exactly why this government must keep its true motives secret.

Answer 8

I don't think the rest of the world considers us as much a super power as we think we are. And, with an idiot like Bush at the wheel, I don't like where this political vehicle is headed. He's gonna get us all killed!

Do you realize that the majority of the citizens in the middle countries think and feel the same way most of us do about our heads of government who can't come to a peaceful solution to our problems?

I'd like to put Bush on the front line of the war on terror and see how fast he'd put up a white flag.

Answer 9

a "massive" attack in the area would spread radioactive fallout all over China as well, which would likely retaliate in some way against us. even if they didn't the resulting economic ruin would be the least of our worries, as this would affect our markets as well.

trade winds would bring poisoned rain across the Mediterranean and many allies in the Mideast and Europe. if you want permanently change life on this planet as we know it, it would only take a handful of the worlds most powerful atomic weapons.

Answer 10

well, with thoughts like these:
""I would rather walk then have to endure an endless war with a bunch of towel headed Arabs eager to meet Allah .
I say help them all out and send them to Allah in mass numbers ."""

i wonder where all those f**cking terrorists come from

Answer 11

I guess,you're not voting for Hillary.
She'll give all your worst fears a face,HERS.
She's proposed 763 Billion in new spending and Charlie Rangel has proposed a Trillion Dollar tax increase to pay for it.
Things are far from perfect but they could be far,far worse.