One trick pony.

Submitted by kindness (United States), Mar 23, 2010 at 12:57

... Modern Iranians don't hate Americans. They don't hate our government. They may not like our government but they don't like their own even more. Bombing Iran would only push this generation into the conservatives (the Mullah & the revolutionary Guard's) camp. How would that help Israel or the US?

Bombing the nuclear facilities that Iran has would not stop them from processing uranium. It would only slow them and give them a target to use for their first nuke. You'd have to occupy Iran to stop them and we don't have the manpower or the money. So how does that help Israel or the US.

Iran will have a nuke in our life time. They have pleanty of uranium ore to dig. They know how to process it. We can't stop them. We can say the very same things we have said to the USSR/Russia, China, or North Korea though. MAD (mutually assured destruction) works. Except in this case, it wouldn't be mutual. Iran might get off one nuke and then become a nuclear wasteland. As crazy as their current leaders are, they won't risk losing the entire nation.

Daniel, you aren't helping Israel. You aren't helping the US. ...

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