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Related: About this forumEvans: The president is right - War is not a game
Clay Evans is a columnist for the Boulder Daily Camera. (He used to be an editor, but writes only sporadically these days.) And in my opinion he is a great voice of reason on many issues.
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Now we hear that Israel is prepared to take matters into its own hands and attack several nuclear facilities in Iran, amplified by American politicians eager to seem "tough." Netanyahu's government and many Americans are convinced that the big dog of the Persian Gulf (for that we can thank the ill-advised war in Iraq) is pursuing nuclear weapons.
President Obama said Monday that the United States "will always have Israel's back." At the same time, he has criticized all the cheap belligerence emanating from GOP presidential candidates and Israeli hawks. On Tuesday, he rightly called out the Republican war hounds for not taking war seriously enough.
"This is not a game," the president said.
No, it's not. But it's all to easy for many Americans to treat it as if it is. The media is generally more than happy to aid and abet that thinking.
President Obama said Monday that the United States "will always have Israel's back." At the same time, he has criticized all the cheap belligerence emanating from GOP presidential candidates and Israeli hawks. On Tuesday, he rightly called out the Republican war hounds for not taking war seriously enough.
"This is not a game," the president said.
No, it's not. But it's all to easy for many Americans to treat it as if it is. The media is generally more than happy to aid and abet that thinking.
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http://www.dailycamera.com/opinion-columnists/ci_20140687/evans-president-is-right-war-is-not-game
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Evans: The president is right - War is not a game (Original Post)
kag
Mar 2012
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zbdent
(35,392 posts)1. War is the "game" where those cheering the loudest should
get down and dirty on the field to see how it really is played ...
wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)2. War is
what makes the richest of the rich their money. This is power beyond the wildest imagination.
lastlib
(23,135 posts)3. Bluster is not sound policy.
Chest-thumping is for third-graders.