(December 15, 2017 at 7:52 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(December 15, 2017 at 11:05 am)AFTT47 Wrote: Because it would be the embarrassment to end all embarrassments - far worse even then electing Donald Trump as president. The standing of the US would take a tremendous hit and would probably never recover. The country would no longer be considered a world leader. The former USSR and China would no longer be in our shadow. Those countries would be able to step up and take a position of greater prominence on the world stage.Politicians are members of a clique. They all tend to support each others' lies so that their own lies won't get exposed.
That's why.
A clique involving leaders of rival countries - each with his/her own agenda? Quite an imagination you've got there. If rival leaders were capable of that kind of collusion, we would have that world-order you conspiracy nuts are always fearing with the cabal of corrupt leaders at the top of a nightmare empire where individuals have no rights.
Do you even bother to think these things through?
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