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Originally Posted by samhass
So..what would you have our government do to prove our strength? Would you have us go to war with Russia?
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I do not think anyone at all....thinks that in anyway shape or form. Not sure why that rhetoric is even in play.
What is being said, from my perspective is....for example....
IRAN
We touted our skill in negotiating a pact with them, and dropped the sanctions. Very proud we were.
"Iran is moving ahead with a nuclear program that U.S. officials said would be frozen, and it is now clear the USA and other world powers are willing to accept an Iranian enrichment program that Iran refuses to abandon, say analysts.
Iran has continued research and development on new, far more efficient machines for producing uranium fuel that could power reactors or bombs, and its stockpile of low enriched uranium has actually grown, according to a report by Institute for Science and International Security."
Iran advancing its nuclear program despite pact with West
This is what Iran said when that pact was put together..
""Do you know what the Geneva agreement means? It means the surrender of the big powers before the great Iranian nation," Hassan Rouhani told a crowd in the oil-rich province of Khuzestan."
Iran calls nuclear pact a Western 'surrender'
SYRIA
We acceeded to Russia on an agreement on Syria. Retired ambassador Robert Ford to Syria, recently retired...a smatter of his recent remarks.
"The US threat of a military strike last year resulted in a chemical weapons agreement because Syria and its Russian backer believed the US meant it. Ford warned that such credibility could be easily squandered if the US threatened military involvement again without being willing to follow through – whatever the unpredictable end."
US Ambassador Ford on what's gone wrong in Syria and where it's headed - CSMonitor.com
Again, we made an agreement but agreements require both sides to do what they gotta do.
NO...I do not think that anyone expects this country to wage any war. I think the frustration is watching agreement after agreement be a one way deal. I think what you are hearing is frustration.
I think our administration is doing all it can do with this current situation in Ukraine. I surely want no more strong threats......hoping we can get UN on board, but that is totally fruitless as Russia has veto on any resolution !!