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Quote from: Ant on January 30, 2005, 02:40:46 PMBigotted republicans that start and support foolish wars with embarassing consquences are a threat to american security. Sorry, I don't know what that has to do with Iran having nukes in 12 months.
Bigotted republicans that start and support foolish wars with embarassing consquences are a threat to american security.
Quote from: 7even the Harbinger on January 29, 2005, 05:30:39 PM^I'd rather have a country that hasnt started a war recently having nukes than a country that has started 2 wars during the past 4 years (and is about to start a 3rd one) having nukes.Right. Because the US is threat to stable democracies.
^I'd rather have a country that hasnt started a war recently having nukes than a country that has started 2 wars during the past 4 years (and is about to start a 3rd one) having nukes.
Oh so now only countries who do something that is not regarded as good by the US are in danger.. ah that's good! Thank God there aren't any tremendous double standards involved.
Quote from: 7even the Harbinger on January 30, 2005, 02:53:42 PMOh so now only countries who do something that is not regarded as good by the US are in danger.. ah that's good! Thank God there aren't any tremendous double standards involved.There is no sense having a serious discussion with people who don't recognize the difference between pluralistic democracies and tyrannical authoritarian regimes.
Quote from: O.G. Techniec on January 29, 2005, 11:30:26 AMIrans been jonesing for a nuke for a long time.My whole response to this englewood, is so what?What is the point here. Are you advocating military response in this situation? Doesnt it seem rather hypocritical, you dunce, for three nuclear powers to tell Iran it cant have any? Considering that Israel is sitting on 100-200 nuclear warheads in the same region as Iran? (And as bad as Irans sins have been, they HAVENT been occupying an entire ethnic population for the last 60 years.LOL at you comparing Israel having Nukes with Iran having nukes.Israel having nukes is not a threat to our security. Iran having nukes is a threat to our security.
Irans been jonesing for a nuke for a long time.My whole response to this englewood, is so what?What is the point here. Are you advocating military response in this situation? Doesnt it seem rather hypocritical, you dunce, for three nuclear powers to tell Iran it cant have any? Considering that Israel is sitting on 100-200 nuclear warheads in the same region as Iran? (And as bad as Irans sins have been, they HAVENT been occupying an entire ethnic population for the last 60 years.
Yea, but Israel having nukes is a threat to other countries... unless of course you admit that the U.S. is selfish and doesn't give a shit about other people?
Quote from: *Jamal* on January 30, 2005, 11:21:25 PMYea, but Israel having nukes is a threat to other countries... unless of course you admit that the U.S. is selfish and doesn't give a shit about other people?Iran with the bomb is an enormous bad turn for mankind. Period. This isn't one of those issues that any dime-a-dozen liberal (ant, seven) can claim is shades of grey when it's starkly black and white.The mullahs in Iran sit astride the world's largest oil producing area. That energy source is what drives the rest of the planet's economy right now. It's not an American issue, it's not an Israeli issue...it's a world issue. These are the same mullahs who gleefully export terrorism and support terrorists in their efforts.Israel has HAD the bomb, by most credible accounts, for almost 30 years. This is the same Israel surrounded by countries pledged to their complete annihilation and from which rockets, bombs and suicide bombers visit Israel regularly. If the Israelis were 1% as bloodthirsty as some no-wits here paint them, the entire middle east would have gone up in a mushroom cloud ages ago. They've had the bomb and it ensures their existence. Iran doesn't require the bomb to ensure their existence. They want the bomb to balance out Israel's nuclear capability and to make them the pre-eminent force in the region.THAT makes a conventional war in the Middle East a much larger possibility again. Iran is a repressive theocratic regime intolerant of anything or anyone that doesn't agree with fundamentalist Islam. Attention, lefties: like it or not that includes you.The freedoms that we as individuals enjoy in the U.S. cannot be ascribed to international relations. In the U.S. if you don't like your neighbor, you rarely plot to obliterate his home, raze it to the ground, piss on the bodies and go right on with the neighborhood bake sales and PTA meetings. In international relations, we cannot afford to grant "equality" to regimes that are clearly NOT equal in human rights, due process, civil liberties etc...The US and Iran are not equals at the table any more than Nazi Germany was the moral equal of England and France in 1938.
Quote from: Don Rizzle on May 10, 2006, 03:16:12 AMiraq would just get annexed by iranThat would be a great solution. If Iran and the majority of Iraqi's are pleased with it, then why shouldn't they do it?
iraq would just get annexed by iran
Israel has HAD the bomb, by most credible accounts, for almost 30 years. This is the same Israel surrounded by countries pledged to their complete annihilation and from which rockets, bombs and suicide bombers visit Israel regularly. If the Israelis were 1% as bloodthirsty as some no-wits here paint them, the entire middle east would have gone up in a mushroom cloud ages ago. They've had the bomb and it ensures their existence.we cannot afford to grant "equality" to regimes that are clearly NOT equal in human rights, due process, civil liberties etc...
we cannot afford to grant "equality" to regimes that are clearly NOT equal in human rights, due process, civil liberties etc...
Wanna look at some UN Resolutions?
Not to get off topic though.... my stance is that either both countries have 'em, or neither... that's fair, and I don't see how you can say it's not without pulling off a double standard... have the ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST get rid of its nukes...