What is your biggest fear if Romney wins the election?

[Victor_c3]

58. I'm probably repeating what has already been said above

I think regardless of who wins the election that the economy is going to improve. However, my fear is that if Romney wins, we'll find the stage set in another decade or so for another crisis like we just went through. The deregulation and tax reforms that Romney wants to impose would be a disastrous return to the W. Bush era.

I would hate to see Obamacare get repealed. That one piece of legislation is something that I'm really proud of as an American. The biggest thing I dislike about Obamacare is that it didn't go far enough, but it is a start and it is progress.

However, the biggest fear of mine is Romney's talk of playing hard in the foreign policy game. Hard-lining and threatening to start wars will result in you actually starting wars. I have no doubt that our military is capable of winning the combat portion of any war (our military hasn't lost a battle since the Korean war roughly 70 years ago) but the nation building part is what seems to get us every time. Just from a point of dollars, more wars scare the crap out of me.

Then you have the "human" aspect of war to contend with. When you say that you support a war, you are effectively committing yourself to murder. Everyone who supported the idea of invading Iraq in 2003 deserves to feel just as much pain and anguish over the war as I do. Perhaps I'm too soft (which is why I got out of the Army), but shooting and killing people for any reason is the worst possible feeling ever. Yeah, you do what you have to do in order to survive and get home, but killing anyone leaves you with huge feelings of guilt and remorse. The people who were fighting against me in Iraq were doing so because they thought they were doing what was best for their families and communities. I definitely didn't agree with their ideology, but I understand that feeling of commitment to one's family and home and I can identify with the "enemy" on that level. They are just people like me.

You also feel just as bad for those times that you didn't murder someone who you probably should have have. There was one incident in particular when I didn't shoot someone who I knew dead nuts was a combatant. I let him get away because I couldn't identify a weapon on him through my Bradley Fighting Vehicle's optics. I still kick myself for that one because there is no telling what that guy went on to do in other future fights.

And not to sound too much like a bleeding heart pinko commie liberal (which I am) but then there are the children and civilians who suffer the most as a result of the war.

A vote for Romney is a vote for war.