It’s a cold war relic, if we left NATO maybe we could have a military surplus by selling them all the weapons they’d need to buy to quit relying on us.

He should…its the right thing to do…

Also, we can’t lose if we do, we have nothing to lose if the present regime falls.

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Israeli Defence Forces wants to liberate iranian goys and shiksas from muslim terror for quite long time, and nowadays they have entire US Army anxiously waiting to help them. What better time to do it?

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Iran is one of the last modern countries where international corporations have no control or influence. Such barbarism cannot stand in modern times!

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The timing is almost right, just need little bit more of flu pandemia, and of course reason that looks good on tv (i.e. Ahmadickwad in power saying he wants to wipe out americans, jews or any other eskimos) to attack.

Ya, I know the feeling.

“Iran having democratic elements? Haven’t yesterday’s election taught you anything? ”

If the Iranians know how to riot — and they DO, they HAVE and they WILL — they will one day have Democracy.

See pics of the fires after the election …

http://breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.de58ae79bab547316b950e6d9851e28a.4b1&show_article=1

Don’t believe everything you are told; the Iranian people are on the right track.

South Korea is so wealthy compared to North Korea they could have a military with jets, hi-tech radar, missile interceptors and bring North Korea to it’s knees.

Germany is the wealthiest country in Europe; we should withdraw. Considering their country had the wealth and resources to start 2 World Wars I bet they could have a military large enough to counter-balance Russia.

And what the hell are we getting out of subsidizing the protection for these countries that clearly shouldn’t need it?

We have a huge national debt and we have a huge deficit! So there isn’t even an economic reason.

The heinous Pol Pot of Cambodia was taken out by Vietnam after we left, so certainly the rest of the world can fend for itself and share the costs of maintaining a stable world.

Imagine how powerful it would be for Obama (or, more likely, a surrogate) to be able to stand up and say to the Iranian protesters, “Under the USA, your neighbor Iraq held free and fair elections. The government of Iran went out of its way to demonize the US and undermine those elections. We are now seeing the results of that mindset come home to Iran as you are denied a voice by your government in your own elections. The US government stands behind all who seek free and fair elections.”

Jagermeister, the WMDs were the side reason. The primary reason was to topple Saddam. For political reasons, WMD made the top of the list.

I agree. Shrink our military and the taxes needed to support it.

Couldn’t agree with you more. Nobody but an American would believe than a US military presence is wanted or needed elsewhere. Unfortunately US foreign policy isn’t based on what’s best for the world. It’s based on the $.

I feel for the North Korean situation and I wonder how many years and how much suffering those people are going to have to endure.

Ironically, I don’t feel that it is the USA’s role or responsibility to rid the world of dictatorships.

I think we should entirely withdraw from South Korea and Japan; those countries have the wealth to defend themselves.

By leaving, I believe parity would be restored to the region because South Korea and Japan — extremely wealthy countries — would have to “grow up”.

Re: Iran

I know Iran cannot be mistaken for an actual democracy but with 65% of the people being under age 25, just wait for what happens when they grow up.

Iran is NOT a dictatorship and even though it is run by an oligarchy there is a world of difference between the two.

And let Europe deal with North Africa dictatorships.

France, Germany (we should leave Germany) and other countries that are affected by massive Muslim immigration should deal with their part of the world.

If the USA would just leave everywhere except North America, the world would have to adapt and everyone would be so much better off.

I don’t like dictatorships either. But why didn’t Bush topple some of the worst dictatorships, such as North Korea and Myanmar?