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When my youngest employees are telling me about their lives, it's not access to home ownership or the cost of secondary education that they cite as reasons they're not advancing up the professional ladder. It's the un-rubblized status of Tehran. Single mothers can be heard complaining loudly about it in any grocery store or shopping center. Cabbies and construction workers grouse about it all day long. Finally, we've got an administration in power truly listening to the material needs of the next generation Americans. As a bonus we can even lobby for a few million of their displaced citizens to migrant here and become permanent residents. I know when China and Russia witness how easily and quickly our Total Victory comes, geopolitical tensions are going to cool off quite a bit. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq 2 and Syria do not count as we weren't really trying. This time will be completely different. In those conflicts we had to overcome having such a well-stocked and competently staffed force. It'll lull you to sleep! This time with the physical inventory precarity and constant shuffling of bodies to piece-together physically fit and English-literate units, our decision makers area going to be operating with greatly heightened senses on the razor's edge. The world ought to be reminded of our exceptionalism.
I see Iran as a threat to our allies in the region, but hardly worth trading our readiness to deter Russia or China to mobilize against. Not that Iran is inhabited by altruistic, Hollywood movie loving Carebears or any other such hallucinations. We're just up to our ears in the cans and checks our grandfathers kicked down the road and wrote with the utmost confidence. We ought to be paving that road to kick things down and stuffing our banks to make sure those checks clear with every ounce of effort we have. Lest we become Greece without the magnanimous demographics and social bonds.
I see Iran as a threat to our allies in the region, but hardly worth trading our readiness to deter Russia or China to mobilize against. Not that Iran is inhabited by altruistic, Hollywood movie loving Carebears or any other such hallucinations. We're just up to our ears in the cans and checks our grandfathers kicked down the road and wrote with the utmost confidence. We ought to be paving that road to kick things down and stuffing our banks to make sure those checks clear with every ounce of effort we have. Lest we become Greece without the magnanimous demographics and social bonds.
