For those of you out there who believe Mitt Romney will start WWIII if elected.....

[AverageJoe90]

35. Quite the opposite.

This isn't like WWI, which started when the Archduke of Austria was murdered, or WWII when that fascist monster Hitler decided to go on his conquering/killing spree across the European continent. The advent of the atom bomb changed many things.

Because you know what? The threat of Mutually Assured Destruction was well understood by both powers and even Curtis LeMay couldn't cross the line during Cuba, and he was as nutty as you could get! And even today, many remember the Cold War and the scares that happened. The warhawks want us to forget all that. They want the public to come to their line of thinking and that does include throwing out shitloads of "WWIII will happen anytime now" propaganda, just like they did in the '50s.

I may only be 22 but I am an ardent student of Cold War history. Too many things have happened to make global nuclear war anything but an extremely remote possibility; look at Georgia in '08 for example: It is a U.S. ally and right next to Russia(and was in fact, a Soviet Socialist Republic!). And Bush was just about as fucked up as Romney. Believe me when I say that I was actually pretty concerned back then.....I was only 18 and not exactly very politically savvy. I know better now, though.

If you want one concession, though, I am concerned about the possibility of nuclear terrorism, particularly if we invade Iran(especially under Romney). And that is bad enough, IMO.