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You do have some impact, as a voter. E.g. you might not be personally afraid of ISIS but the threat they pose to the region and Europe might be enough for you
by force_reboot 11y ago
You do have some impact, as a voter. E.g. you might not be personally afraid of ISIS but the threat they pose to the region and Europe might be enough for you to think that the US should reverse its policy of trying to overthrow Assad.
- tonyedgecombe 11y agoWhich of the two US parties are promising a meaningful change in international policy towards Syria?
- dwiel 11y agoAnd how long does it really take to figure out who you want to vote for obce every 4 years
- rquantz 11y agoThere are meaningful elections at least twice a year. If you don't realize that, maybe that's because you're not paying enough attention?
- force_reboot 11y agoNeither, I really should have said "as voter and a a citizen" since changing this policy might require more than voting. But I think that this is something an ordinary citizen can do something about. The policy up until now was not created by arms manufacturers, or by neo-cons alone, but primarily by moderate liberals. Noam Chomsky or Norman Finkelstein would say that these moderate liberals had been tricked into acting as pawns for the neo-cons. That doesn't have the ring of truth to me. I think they act according to their own ideology, albeit a hypocritical one that is liberal at home and right wing on the Middle East. This ideology can be argued and lobbied against by people with different opinions.
- mr_tyzic 11y agoChomsky wouldn't say that at all. His critique has always been primarily of liberals.
- onewaystreet 11y agoFirst you have to define "meaningful change." There are people on the right in the US who would define it as an invasion of the country. I suspect you are not one of those people.
- ryanmonroe 11y agoNeither, possibly in part because they know those who would support that don't vote