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"The US Is a 12-Year-Old with a Shotgun"

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If we attacked Iran, said historian Gwynne Dyer in an interview, it "would actually convince a great many people that the United States is congenitally a rogue state. A senior Japanese diplomat said to me 'You know the United States is a twelve year old with a shotgun.' And what he meant was that [on its way down, the US] is becoming extremely erratic."
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Russ Wellen is the nuclear deproliferation editor for OpEdNews. He's also on the staffs of Freezerbox and Scholars & Rogues.

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