Thread: Should we bomb Iran to prevent their getting nuclear weapons

Originally Posted by Mya

with all respect .... rubbish!

Friedman, a 3 time Pulitzer Prize winner, vs an anonymous poster on an online political forum, with all respect.

Originally Posted by specklebang

The Iraq War, part 2 was the biggest scam ever pulled on America. It made no sense. But certain people made 100s of billions of dollars. Friends of contributor's kids were sent to "manage" the various Iraqi Ministries. So, yeah, the WMD thing was just wishful thinking and a path toward a big, fat, profitable war where America couldn't possibly lose. Iraqi's were happy to see us. We killed a bad man. A multi-trillion dollar adventure.

Iran is different. They may be cuckoo but they also have a lot of intelligent scientists and engineers. They make cars. They're a real country in spite of the religious madness.

It seems like the Israeli's want to do this. They are just as capable as we are. They have one of the best Air Forces in the world. So, this seems real good except for the backlash.

IF we are SURE they are building a nuke, unchain Israel. If not sure, we better give this more thought. Wars are good for MIC business but they're tough on us ordinary folk. I see more and more disabled soldiers who look as sad and crazed as those who were in Vietnam. Another disabled generation. It's easy to enter a war. It's not so easy for all this promise to die or be injured.

Sure, ok. After Israel does that and piss off the entire Arab/Muslim world and they retaliate, then we would have an excellent reasont to wipe all of them out instead of only one of them. Cool, I didn't realize you were capable of such ruthlessness. I like it.

I did say there would be backlash.

Otherwise, if you have followed this thread all the way through, I'm advocating kissing their ass in a desperate effort to call all this off. However, if it's down to that, yes, let the Israelis go instead. If the Arabs thought they could kick Israels ass, they would already have tried. They can't. The Israelis have the warfare thing down too good.

So, I prefer peace but if not, then minimally invasive surgery.

Ruthlessly yours,
Specklebang Of Swords

Originally Posted by DVSentinel

Sure, ok. After Israel does that and piss off the entire Arab/Muslim world and they retaliate, then we would have an excellent reasont to wipe all of them out instead of only one of them. Cool, I didn't realize you were capable of such ruthlessness. I like it.

Originally Posted by listener

That is the question

Israel already has dibs, and since they're the ones who would be threatened by it, let them deal with it. Israel has been chomping at the bit to nail Iran anyway.

Originally Posted by Catawba

Friedman, a 3 time Pulitzer Prize winner, vs an anonymous poster on an online political forum, with all respect.

Who cares if he is a 10th time Pulitzer winner.

He is not threaten daily by Iran.

He should go back to writing books, not being a military analyst.

Originally Posted by Mya

Who cares if he is a 10th time Pulitzer winner.

He is not threaten daily by Iran.

He should go back to writing books, not being a military analyst.

I have read that in Israel, Most of the public opposes an Israeli strike on Iran

How are you more threatened than the majority of people you live among.

Originally Posted by ChrisL

Obviously some people don't understand how our government works.

Or how it's SUPPOSED to work... it seems they've been ever increasingly bypassing checks and balances and nobody seems to worry about it and in turn, noone is held accountable. I'm not sure I like the way it's going.

Originally Posted by johnny_rebson

Umm, some of those dictators are good dictators who support US interests.

Funny thing is, the U.S. has a long history of putting dictators into power because they play our puppets and when they decide they don't need us anymore, we have to go in an militarily throw them out. You'd think we'd learn our lesson but we just keep on doing it.

Originally Posted by Gardener

I think you are allowed to say that he is a whole lot smarter and more consistent than you.

Which, of course, simply isn't true. But you keep being deluded if it makes you happy.

Originally Posted by specklebang

IF we are SURE they are building a nuke, unchain Israel. If not sure, we better give this more thought. Wars are good for MIC business but they're tough on us ordinary folk. I see more and more disabled soldiers who look as sad and crazed as those who were in Vietnam. Another disabled generation. It's easy to enter a war. It's not so easy for all this promise to die or be injured.

Israel doesn't listen to us now, we don't have to unchain them, we don't have them chained now. The second they think they can get away with something, they'll do it in a heartbeat.