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Should we invade Iran?

middleview

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We did not confront China, Israel, India, Pakistan, South Africa or North Korea when they developed nuclear weapons. Why would we engage in military action against Iran? I'm in favor of ramping up sanctions even against European companies that would sell equipment to them. Libya gave up their nuke program because they needed the money they could get by selling oil. Iran would eventually realize the impact to their economy just isn't worth it.....

I watch the republicans using the same old tactics for political purposes. Romney even tried to resurrect Russia as a global threat because they need an enemy for voters to be afraid of.
 
Like their tax cut agenda...the Right wants a THIRD try at a failed policy...i.e Another War in the Middle East.

It'd be funny if it wasn't so pathetic and dangerous.
 
middleview said:
We did not confront China, Israel, India, Pakistan, South Africa or North Korea when they developed nuclear weapons. Why would we engage in military action against Iran? I'm in favor of ramping up sanctions even against European companies that would sell equipment to them. Libya gave up their nuke program because they needed the money they could get by selling oil. Iran would eventually realize the impact to their economy just isn't worth it.....

I watch the republicans using the same old tactics for political purposes. Romney even tried to resurrect Russia as a global threat because they need an enemy for voters to be afraid of.
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No!!! And Bibi is way out of line sticking his nose over here and trying to force us just to get his butt buddy elected because he knows will do whatever he wants!

Just one more reason to vote against Romney/Ryan. Romney's statement last night proves how ignorant he is on Foreign Policy and so is John McCain.I actually think John is senile. He shows all the signs with his temper tantrums.
 
middleview said:
We did not confront China, Israel, India, Pakistan, South Africa or North Korea when they developed nuclear weapons. Why would we engage in military action against Iran? I'm in favor of ramping up sanctions even against European companies that would sell equipment to them. Libya gave up their nuke program because they needed the money they could get by selling oil. Iran would eventually realize the impact to their economy just isn't worth it.....

I watch the republicans using the same old tactics for political purposes. Romney even tried to resurrect Russia as a global threat because they need an enemy for voters to be afraid of.
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A billion times...no.

Iran is a very interesting country. Tehran is western. Looks western and acts western. Mostly.

I just don't see any nation dropping a big bomb on a neighbor right now...but at the same time...I won't be surprised if/when it happens.
 
No. He [President Obama] keeps overtly warning Israel not to take action while he continues masturbating with sanctions that do not work, while knowing that the Israelis will eventually defy him and strike and destroy the plant, losing one or several jets and pilots in the process.

Then he will privately sigh in relief while publicly he shakes his finger at the Israeli government and says the equivalent of, "Bad dog for pooping on the carpet. Don't do it again!"

Now you know.
 
Mitt Romney's plan for the betterment of the entire world is replacing Obama as president. I sort of like the notion myself.
 
Cicero said:
No. He [President Obama] keeps overtly warning Israel not to take action while he continues masturbating with sanctions that do not work, while knowing that the Israelis will eventually defy him and strike and destroy the plant, losing one or several jets and pilots in the process.

Then he will privately sigh in relief while publicly he shakes his finger at the Israeli government and says the equivalent of, "Bad dog for pooping on the carpet. Don't do it again!"

Now you know.
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I'll take that as a 'yes'.
 
The U.S. invading Canada makes as much sense as invading Iran; humor has no place in your little world, does it?

The U.S. just cannot go around invading other countries at will, especially those that are no real threat to our security. For one thing we can't afford it, we spend more on our military than the next 8 or 10 countries combined. People talk about the mounting debt, one way to deal with that is to spend less on the military. We could easily cut 25-30% out of the military budget and not be any less safe than we are today. The purpose of the armed forces is (or at least should be) defence; it is more than a little ironic that about the same time the Department of War was renamed Department of Defence, the mission seemed to move from defence to invasion/interference/attack.
 
joe, I don't think even a "President Romney" would invade Iran....he's no ideologue and would never do anything that would risk his polling, like Dubya and Cheney did with Iraq.

I don't even think he would help Israel bomb Iran...just cheer for them AFTER it was over if it went well....or deny he supported it if it went badly.
 
That or 'Get the nation hating socialist out of office.'

But in real terms and based on his moderate politics I suspect that President Romney will have an only slightly harder edge to his foreign policy than former president Obama. I wouldn't expect much from him in that regard.
 
[Shrug] between them both Presidents Bush and Obama have essentially bankrupted this nation by combining efforts to put us between sixteen and seventeen trillion dollars in debt. Our nation simply cannot afford to conduct another ground war. So, oddly enough, Obama's passive approach to letting the Iranians go ahead and develop nuclear weapons while waiting for the Israelis to take care of the problem for themselves and for us, is the intelligent approach. It just that it makes him look incompetent and spineless.

But foreign policy is not going to get President Obama either re-elected or defeated. This time it's all about the economy.
 
Cicero...you don't care WHAT a "President Romney" would do....just that he existed.

In fact, if he won...and Hillary started "hinting" about 2016....your "new friends" on the Right who count you as one of their own...would be in for a BIG surprise, wouldn't they????

:)
 
Possibly so. I had no idea that when Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama faced off in 2008 that it would be the final straw for me as a Democrat and that as a result I would end up voting for John McCain. One never knows what will force a change of mind down the road. I understand, for instance, that you have not always been a liberal. People change.
 
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