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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We Need To End Teheran's Islamist Regime
- From Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights
By Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights - Advancing Objectivism
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America's next "best friends"?
After WW2, America's closest allies, the nations that copied her nearly-Capitalist culture, were not the nations rescued from Nazism and Japanese Imperialism. They were Germany and Japan. If the argument against attacking Iran is that its young people, eager to earn the well-being of the West, don't hate America, we should consider how to free them of oppressive Islamism which blocks them from emulating the West. The example of our dealings with Germany and Japan seem instructive.
What is lacking in this strategy is that the holy sites of Islam are in Saudi Arabia which supports Islamism and terrorism.
We don't need the oil of either country. We have enough of our own. The serious development of electric vehicles by GM could end the need for automotive oil soon after 2010.
What we need is to be able to argue that if Allah cannot protect Islamic holy sites, then maybe He doesn't guarantee an inevitable conquering of the peoples of the Earth, any more than Marxism did.
- pbeaird
August 20, 2008 6:49PM
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This is Absurd
There is no proof that we "need" to take down a regime. They are a free and independent country that can have any type of government they want. I don't have to agree with it but then again they don't have to agree with ours. Let's see a list of our own governments terrorist activities and take care of that first. There is a reason that so many countries are against us and it's not about religion or jealousy. It's because our government has made bad decisions to involve itself in other countries internal affairs.
Like many people, we get tired of and irritated at those neighbors who barge into our house without calling beforehand or even knocking on our door.
- mangueken
November 23, 2008 3:29PM
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Destroy Islamic totalitarianism
I agree with this argument entirely. The Islamic regime in Iran is not a legitimate government. Our government is. Iran is clearly posing a threat to our country. Our government therefore has a right, and indeed, a duty, to eliminate this threat as quickly as possible, using whatever force is necessary.
- steve1952
March 25, 2009 1:14PM
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