[split]Ron Paul plays Yahtzee with Nazis

[A Theist]

Agreed with everything except for Iran. Iran has already made it's intentions plain that it does not tolerate Israel existing in the Middle East, nor does Iran tolerate the U.S. and the West. I think a nuclear armed Iran is a threat that we should take seriously.

I'd agree with you, but the fact remains that all the countries that oppose Iran having nuclear weapons, have nuclear weapons. How do you think it comes across to a country like Iran when other countries start to try and dictate what sorts of weapons it can have (even defensively). Israel isn't innocent in this conflict either.

Besides, any country with the intellectual know-how to create such weapons would understand the suicide move it would ultimately be to use them provocatively. At this point, we're in a stalemate in regards to nuclear weapons, and it wouldn't surprise me if a country never uses one in an act of aggression ever again.

I'm personally in favour of the Ron Paul approach: let other countries do what they want, but maintain diplomatic relationships and try to influence them that way. No good comes of trying to bully someone.

I would agree if it weren't for other factors.

1). Iran has stated that they do not tolerate the existence of Israel in the Middle East.
2). How Israel perceives that Iranian threat.
3). A real possibility that Israel will strike at Iran's nuclear facilities expanding into a conflict that will include the U.S., and possibly Britain, Russia and China, all protecting their vested interests in the region.
4). Iran is also involved in state sponsored terrorism throughout that region and beyond and was suspected to have involved its military in a recent conflict between Israel and Lebanon.
5). The U.S. also takes seriously the Iranian threat to close the Strait of Hormuz.
6). The UN is also fearful of a nuclear armed Iran and I think the general consensus is that Iran would use them.
These are very realistic possibilities that I think we need to be prepared to meet. I don't think Iran has shown that it wouldn't use nuclear weapons. Iraq used chemical weapons in its war with Iran and I think the leadership in Iran is just as crazy as Saddam Hussein to use nuclear weapons.

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