Once a distant, mysterious land, the U.S. has become intensely embroiled in Middle Eastern politics. While simultaneously waging campaigns in both Afghanistan and Iraq, America has turned a wary eye to Iran and its alleged nuclear weapons. With the lives of potentially thousands of soldiers and citizens at stake in both countries, should the U.S. take direct military action against Iran?
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Now is the Time for a Little Realistic Thinking
- From Heritage Foundation
By Heritage Foundation - Leadership for America
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And the right time is?
The argument presented says, "The military options at America's disposal range from the "merely" troubling, difficult and expensive, to the truly horrifying." Yes that is what we want. If they thought it would be a cake walk or a welfare mission they would scoff as they are. Diplomacy without a reputation to back it up is worthless. The enemy needs to know " horrifying" is in the equation. Otherwise when and if they get to that stage of readiness it will be the U.S. saying we cannot face such awful power and must recapitulate. Being a superpower is of no use when facing up to conquest oriented zealots unless we confront them with the consequences and they know that we mean it.
- Tuner38 August 24, 2008 7:19AM
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When is the Time?
>"Now is not the time, however, to consider military action against Iran."
By what standard do you propose to judge when we should conduct military action? Do we wait for them to attack? Oh, wait, they've already done that. How big does the attack need to be (how many people killed)? How long do we have to turn the other cheek, to commit detente, to conduct dialogue, to engage diplomacy before it is appropriate for the US to have a military response? Because no answer is ever given, the implicit premise behind this statement is that it is never right for the most powerful and efficacious military in the world to defend itself, its citizens, its military forces by the use of military force.
- Kingscrest September 1, 2008 9:16AM
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