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In reply to the discussion: For those of you out there who believe Mitt Romney will start WWIII if elected..... [View all]Warpy
(114,588 posts)who is screaming for a ground war against Iran. His head foreign policy advisor is that walking international incident, Bolton. He is deeply ignorant of the reality of world affairs and seemingly incurious about them.
While I don't think he would knowingly start a world war, his ignorance combined with the belligerence of his backers and his team make another war we can't possibly either afford or win extremely likely if he is put into office.
Messing up the world's oil supply through ill considered wars resulting in disrupted shipping lanes will provoke an international response against the US.
If we are very lucky, we will face targeted trade embargoes and remember, we no longer make such basic items as cloth and shoes.
Romney suffers from the same problem as that last disastrous Republican in office: he is dismally ignorant of how a government works, he is dismally ignorant of foreign policy and he will leave running the country to men like Bolton, Bork, Gramm, and Norquist while he swans around for the cameras.
If this country is stupid enough to go through another such administration, it will likely not survive in its present form. This country's chances of winning any conflict are slim. We no longer make the commodities that would allow us to survive it.