I'm Confident

Since we have seen what a mess our invasion of Iraq and subsequent occupation of the joint has created, I am confident that the American people will not fall into supporting an attack on Iran.

But on the off chance that we do get tricked into supporting an attack on Iran too, leading us into a war with that country, I am absolutely certain that us Americans would never ever get tricked into supporting a full-scale attempt on other countries in the region.

I mean, how far could we really allow this to go?

But let's just say that we fell for it the first time, admitted that even presidents make mistakes, bought the whole Iran thing, and then the broader regional offensive...there's no way in hell the American people would support invading Europe. Even if there was pretty certain evidence that a member of the European Union had sold Syria the paper used for a check that a Syrian prince had sent to a relative of modest means in Pakistan, who used the check to buy nails to fix a wall, but whose nails were stolen on the way back from the hardware store by terrorist bombers and used as shrapnel against American troops.

I just don't see us falling for that.

If we did, though, the American people would definitely have learned something at this point. Guaranteed. And when an American president suggests, then, that we deplete our remaining resources by taking over the whole of the African continent and New Zealand...the voice of the people would say rather emphatically, "No thank you."

But if, as a nation, we were feeling particularly insecure or antagonistic on that day - we would remember how we felt that day and vow never again to let critical foreign policy decisions be decided at such vulnerable times. And when the president suggests nuking the U.N. and taking over the planet, we would laugh in his face.

But if, for some reason, the U.N. and the entire metro region went up in a cloud of smoke - and we attempted to control the planet from Sweden while losing an ongoing battle with The World - I am confident we would never get suckered into invading Deltroc, in the Zibjar System.

We would be stretching ourselves way too thin at that point.