Gettin' It Done - 21

In some ways, violence is violence.  And it doesn't matter if you're dropping bombs from 50,000 feet, or launching air-to-ground missiles from unmanned drones, or damaging the prospects of school kids by depriving them of healthcare or food or opportunity or whatever.

One way or another, we're waging war against the Iranian people.  War is always about the people.   We can comfort ourselves by saying we're doing these things because the Iranian government is mistreating its citizens, but the effect - the intent, in my opinion - is that we're making things hard on the people in order to move them to change their government.

21. Tightened Sanctions on Iran: In effort to deter Iran’s nuclear program, signed Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act (2010) to punish firms and individuals who aid Iran’s petroleum sector. In late 2011 and early 2012, coordinated with other major Western powers to impose sanctions aimed at Iran’s banks and with Japan, South Korea, and China to shift their oil purchases away from Iran.

The problem is that I don't know what else we're supposed to do.  There is, of course, an awful lot going on that we don't see, but while sanctions are risky, they're at least a bit less risky than goin' all Stoopid Cowboy on 'em and just shootin' the place up.

What I really don't think anybody needs is for Romney to put the NeoCons back in charge, which is exactly what he'll do, given what we know about his Foreign Policy team.  eg: I've seen way too much of Dan Senor lately, and it's just astounding to me that this guy even has a job now.  Senor is the fucking genius who kept telling us in about 2004 or 2005 that things were going just peachy in Iraq.

Let these pricks in the door again and we're right back in the shit.