# Should the US bomb Agrabah? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 19, 2015, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-bomb-agrabah/740818 "2015-12-19T00:08:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-bomb-agrabah/740818/1 "2015-12-19T00:08:09Z")
30% of Republican voters think so, while 45% of Trumps supporters do. [It’s in Aladdin.](http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/18/republican-voters-bomb-agrabah-disney-aladdin-donald-trump?) No news yet on how many GOP candidates want to carpet bomb it. This isn’t Trump, this is a chunk of the US electorate. Do people in the US understand wht happens when you drop explosives on peoples homes because this doesn’t look stupid from overseas, it’s starting to look like collective insanity. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-bomb-agrabah/740818/2 "2015-12-19T00:21:14Z")
I’ve been told on another thread that if even ONE Democrat agrees with a stupid poll idea, then it does not matter how many Republicans side with the stupid idea; The two sides are completely equivalent. (And therefore, liberal hypocrisy) I don’t know why this is so… It seems to be a special kind of math. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-bomb-agrabah/740818/3 "2015-12-19T00:24:39Z")
> [@](#): > > One in four of those polled by the PPP said that Islam should be illegal in the US. One in four. The US is no longer the land of the free. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-bomb-agrabah/740818/4 "2015-12-19T00:25:37Z")
Hell yeah, and let’s bomb Dagobah while we’re at it. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-bomb-agrabah/740818/5 "2015-12-19T00:36:37Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Hell yeah, and let’s bomb Dagobah while we’re at it. Actually, we should probably destroy Aldaraan. The others are far too remote to make an effective demonstration. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-bomb-agrabah/740818/6 "2015-12-19T00:40:35Z")
More a rant, really Off to the Pit ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-bomb-agrabah/740818/7 "2015-12-19T01:14:01Z")
…Dantooine. Bernie Sander’s headquarters is on Dantooine. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-bomb-agrabah/740818/8 "2015-12-19T01:26:09Z")
I’m an angry Brit like you, OP. But this is pretty thin gruel. That’s 500-odd people who don’t reply so well to leading questions. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-bomb-agrabah/740818/9 "2015-12-19T01:44:43Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > One in four. > > The US is no longer the land of the free. Of course it is. One four think it should be illegal and yet it is not. The phrase says we are free. It doesn’t say we are smart. ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-bomb-agrabah/740818/10 "2015-12-19T01:55:20Z")
Too be fair, perhaps a number of voters watch Disney films thinking they are documentaries. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-bomb-agrabah/740818/11 "2015-12-19T02:00:16Z")
How many libbys signed the petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide? Folks on both sides of the spectrum are idiotic sheep. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-bomb-agrabah/740818/12 "2015-12-19T02:06:19Z")
> **[Sadness, shame and blame at Yale over First Amendment repeal video](https://www.foxnews.com/us/sadness-shame-and-blame-at-yale-over-first-amendment-repeal-video)** > > Members of the Yale University community on Thursday responded with a mix of embarrassment, sadness and literal disbelief to a viral video showing students there freely signing a petition that calls for the repeal of the First Amendment. Some Yalies signing a petition to repeal the 1st amendment ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-bomb-agrabah/740818/13 "2015-12-19T03:09:33Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > How many libbys signed the petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide? > > Folks on both sides of the spectrum are idiotic sheep. Uh, they might have just been having some fun with that one. I would probably have signed it too. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-bomb-agrabah/740818/14 "2015-12-19T03:16:47Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > [Sadness, shame and blame at Yale over First Amendment repeal video | Fox News](http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/18/sadness-shame-and-blame-at-yale-over-first-amendment-repeal-video.html) > > Some Yalies signing a petition to repeal the 1st amendment From the linked article (bold added): > [@](#): > > Horowitz said he shot the video at Yale in **an effort to gauge the true level of anti-free speech sentiment on college campuses**. Yale is among a number of schools around the country where students or faculty members have lobbied for “safe spaces” where ideas, statements and persons deemed disagreeable or offensive aren’t welcome. How certain is it that his little petition was actually measuring that? More likely, he was just inadvertently measuring the stupidity of a segment of the student body, I suspect. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-bomb-agrabah/740818/15 "2015-12-19T03:23:27Z")
I hear that some Brits didn’t even know they were bombing Iraq for the last year. How funny is that? Hardee-har-har-har. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-bomb-agrabah/740818/16 "2015-12-19T03:26:38Z")
IMHO, there’s way too much argle-bargle about bombing Agrabah these days. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-bomb-agrabah/740818/17 "2015-12-19T03:32:31Z")
I think bombing all of Agrabah would be wrong. Can’t we just take out the parrot with a drone strike? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-bomb-agrabah/740818/18 "2015-12-19T03:37:33Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Some Yalies signing a petition to repeal the 1st amendment As I recall, Dear Abby or Ann Landers (c’mon–they were twins; could you keep them straight?) stopped answering questions with a New Haven postmark because of all the Yalie trolls. Speaking of bombing New Haven, did anybody else see a performance of “We Bombed in New Haven?” Didn’t think so. It was shit. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-bomb-agrabah/740818/19 "2015-12-19T05:10:53Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I’ve been told on another thread that if even ONE Democrat agrees with a stupid poll idea, then it does not matter how many Republicans side with the stupid idea; > The two sides are completely equivalent. > > (And therefore, liberal hypocrisy) > > I don’t know why this is so… It seems to be a special kind of math. Given that 19% of Democrats in the poll support it, this is not something I would hold up as a prime example of Republican silliness (and I come from the left side of the aisle myself. It’s embarrassing to both sides.) ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-bomb-agrabah/740818/20 "2015-12-19T06:07:37Z")
Bombing is too risky. The Genie or Jafar or someone would magic that shit out of the sky. Better to send in special forces and garrote the royals in their sleep. Reminds me when the Man Show ran a petition to end women’s suffrage. I can’t find the original clip, but you can see a lot of imitators on youtube. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-bomb-agrabah/740818.md?page=2)