Quote Originally Posted by kygorski View Post
You're forgetting one basic principal. Survival.Very few folks care to die for someone elses principles.Human nature will in most cases over ride self distruction.To quote a line from spiderman, with power there is great resposibility.We fail to consider that Persia[iran] was civilized long before there was an america. We are not always right. Western thinking started this mess. England wanted to be the empire that never ceased to exist,there was no irag,there were tribal home lands, that the british thought they could meld together.How did that work out for them.This idea of sanctions is great on paper, it really worked for us on cuba.You know something strange, we have not won a war on our terms since 1946. When we beat their butts, we hang around so they can get pay back.Its getting harder to get the kind of soldiers we need, many cannot pass the required physical challenges.Next we will be mortgaging our educacational standards so we can pay for 'nation building".War is expensive, its not economical. Let the world get another policeman.
You are RIGHT.......but It is not the civilized Persian world that wants a NUKE. It is the radicalized CRAZY Islamic HATEMONGER that wants a NUKE. Unfortunately, the Iranian president and regime follows this Islamic HATEMONGER ideology. Just watch his interviews. I don't believe he is posturing, I believe with a NUKE, he'd USE IT.

And you change the subject and move all over the place. This is not about sanctions, this is not about payback, this is not about the kind of soldiers we need, this is not about physical challenges, this is not about mortgages.

THIS IS ABOUT a nuclear IRAN. Deflect all you like. but the fact is. Iran with a NUKE is a very, very deadly IRAN.

We best destroy their capabilities while we CAN.

Later,

Geo