2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Primary Factors [View all]lovemydog
(11,833 posts)in American history. Some in Eisenhower's cabinet proposed dropping a nuke on China. I believe some on the joint chiefs of staff (like Curtis LeMay) nuking Vietnam. McCain and other republicans seemed obsessed with bombing Iran. If we actually bombed all the various places in the world that republicans have proposed heavily bombing, I think we'd be left with the US, parts of Western Europe and maybe Antartica.
A sobering history lesson indeed. Bringing it to current times, republican presidential candidates are now proposing large scale bombing in the middle east. And I'm sure other regions as well.
Agreed we should think carefully about how we vote, and also look closely at who among the republican candidates factions in that party are pushing and why.