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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The Iranians do not have WMD. There is no argument there. It has signed on to the non proliferation of these weapons. On the other hand the only country that has WMD in the Middle East is Israel. Now the right to bear arms is enshrined in the Consititution. Why is it that Iran cannot have WMD to defend itself against another Country. The fear that they might can be used against any other Country possesing the WMD. India, Pakistan, China etc. Perhaps invade someone with the ability or go broke.
Is the real reason to invade the WMD? Or is it the fact that the Federal Reserve does not have Iran under debt?
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September 8, 2008 8:28AM
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Nuclear Buildup Would Lead To Diplomatic Isolation
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Iranian Strategy
>>From a strategic point of view, a nuclear Iran makes no sense. It would make the country a pariah in the West and a target of fear and suspicion by every Middle Eastern power.
The same could be said for the 1939 Russo-German invasion of Poland: "It would make the country a pariah in the West and a target of fear and suspicion by every [European] power.
We should try to remember that the Iranian mullahs, like Hitler and Stalin, are mystical, uneducated power-lusters. Logical analysis isn't necessarily in their ken.
- Mr Cropper August 20, 2008 10:37AM
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Diplomacy Can Mean Persuasiveness
Since when did diplomatic interchanges between nations become "wimpishness" or "surrender."? Barack Obama is the voice of reason when he argues that it is sine qua non to face your adversary and to listen to their side of the issue and then lay it on the line to them what we will and will not tolerate. But to precipitously threaten to bomb them to extinction is no polity; it is pure testerone of an adolescent nation (yes, us, the U.S.) to yell, scream, use epithets and propaganda, and then to blast them physically.
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Persuasion
Persuasion only works when both sides are committed to using reason to resolve their differences. From its inception the Islamic Republic of Iran has been committed to the use of violence against the US. They are religious fanatics who explicitly reject reason. Their faith tells them that we are evil and should be destroyed. They have attacked us repeatedly, and we have repeatedly responded by trying to reason with them. But we will never reason them out of a position that is grounded in religious fantacism. Our only option, if we value our existence, is to destroy them before they acquire the means to destroy us.
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August 20, 2008 4:57PM
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You omit mentioning religious hatred
As events in the country of Georgia show clearly, the Russian Bear has NOT been declawed.
It is not the Iranian youth who run the Iranian government or military.
Religious hatred against what Islamic believers consider the filth of Jews inhabiting a sliver of what was once Arabia is a deeper source of motivation than diplomatic niceties.
Your liberal mindset that "talk-nice" will dissuade people who have openly declared their intentions and stated their deepest motivations for their intended actions is a malady that needs a research foundation of its own to find a cure.
That cure is philosophy which tells us what kind of universe we live in, what kind of beings we are, what principles should guide our actions so that we can live well here. In world culture there is only one voice that offers a demonstrated cause for peace among men. That is found in the philosophy of mankind's greatest moral teacher, Ayn Rand. I point you to Atlas Shrugged, the most inspiring novel ever written.
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