DaveP said:
I don't think he can really be called a misogynist either, I think maybe he likes women a little too much.
He has several women working in his government, maybe people think they are just tokens, I wonder if they feel that way too?
There must also have been a lot of women voting for misogyny in the last election, which seems unlikely.
No, it's not unlikely at all. You have much too high an opinion about that subgroup of the electorate, and I don't mean women in general, I mean female Trump voters. If you don't get why he's a misogynist by now, then, well..... I don't think you ever will...
DaveP said:
What I have learnt is that we are damned if we intervene and damned if we don't. The grim reaper demands his spoils whatever which-way.
Well, there's one way to be sure he gets his spoils, and that's by starting something, something you appear to promote.
The problem here is that you can't just reduce this to "damned if we do, damned if we don't" without actually understanding what you are proposing or supporting and its consequences, and juxtaposing that to what you actually know is factually true.
First prove that Iran is breaking the recent agreement, then discuss what actions could be taken, then figure out the consequences, then tally that up. Like I said, your rhetoric and that of the conservatives just assumes that because it's "Iran" + missile it's evil intent. It
does look like the ramp-up to the Iraq war. Claim they're up to nothing good, then ask them to prove a negative.
Now, let me offer a perspective on this to (I think) prove my point:
- What means of defense is Iran allowed to have, both morally as a sovereign nation and legally as a sovereign nation, and what would that defense look like?
Now, if the answer to that question is "a conventional military with conventional weapons, not WMDs", then the answer to the second would be "just like what we just saw". Seeing an image of a missile test in newspaper tells you (us civilians) absolutely nothing about the capabilities of that missile.
By the way, it's curious when you invoke the security council as some sort of leverage for your argument against Iran, yet completely ignore the very same body when it comes to Israeli colonization using settlements.
Then the security council resolutions are not really relevant....
DaveP said:
The concern about missiles (in that region), especially when they become nuclear, is that they will be targeted on Israel. That would lead to a nuclear exchange that would cause unimaginable suffering. This was the reasoning behind Obama's Iranian deal that had the entire security council on board and why Iranian adherence is so important.
DaveP
"would lead"? Not "
Could lead"?
Israel has nukes, and in order for your prediction to be true the leadership in Iran would want to die. Not figuratively, but literally. Because the guaranteed response to an attack on Israel now that it has nukes, with nukes, is more nukes. In other words it's mutually assured destruction. So again, do you
really think the leaders of Iran are suicidal?
I don't think they are. But I think ignoring that fact conveniently lends to a narrative that conservatives like.
(and yes, I keep harping on "conservatives" now because that's how we're describing people now, with no nuance at all. That's what works, not depth or breadth).