It used to be that our non-interventionist foreign policy kept us from invasion. It worked fine, until it was abandoned in the 1890's and especially after WWI. It's fine to keep an eye on what others are doing with nukes. That's what spy satellites and inspectors are for. But lying about the evidence and then invading because of imaginary facts is just plain foolish.
Try me. Explain why we ally with non-democratic and/or nuclear-equipped allies who have violated anti-nuke proliferation treaties, and are known terrorists like Khadaffi. You're a smart guy, I'm sure you can put it in terms I can understand.
On the one hand, I hear people say that the root cause of terrorism is brutal repressive dictatorships, but then on the other hand we form alliances with brutal repressive dictatorships. I don't understand.
Of course. And I'm merely pointing out that a change in leadership doesn't really change the bureaucracy's drive to push people around and make up flimsy excuses for more funding.
Even if they adopted the tactics of your dictator, and violated every single item in the bill of rights? Or, what if it wasn't a dictator. What if it was a popular,
elected president?
It is exceedingly unlikely that Iraq or Iran would hand out nukes to terrorists.
You do not hand over your ultimate trump card to someone you have no real control over. You hold onto it--like every single nuclear power has--as a deterrent. To put it another way:
Holding a nuke = serious power
Giving out nukes = no ultimate trump card, and if it goes off you're looking at massive retaliation.
In other words, the only way to HOLD power is to HOLD onto your nukes. Kind of like all the communists have, and like muslim Pakistan has.
It's invested in private companies
by the government. I wonder what would happen if the democrats regained power? I can see it now. The government withholds SS funds from companies who don't hire the correct number of short, hispanic, hindu, french-speaking, physically handicapped, communist gay black women. Or from companies that outsource too much. Or from companies that don't pay high enough wages, or who don't hire union workers. Well, whatever it is...you can be sure Big Brother will be the the corporate backseat driver.