Iran leader issues warning to US
 

this somewhat scares me..

Iran Leader Warns US

Re: Iran leader issues warning to US
 

Right now Iran has no way to even touch us, honestly, and they are a severe problem that needs to be dealt with.

But...

I also believe that a large scale military operation is probably not the best option. The youth of Iran is predominantly against their own government, and committing war against their nation would only prove to alienate them from our objectives.

The question is, what is the right way to support this majority against the ayatollah and inspire revolution? It comes down to how organized their own resistance organizations are and whether or not they will work with us in a combained air/special ops/social upheaval operation.

In the end, though, the real danger is allowing such an unstable and openly comabative government get ahold of nuclear weapons and devices that can deliver them.

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Respond with double the intensity? Ha.... I'd like to see them pull that off. Crazy religious nutjobs.

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And I believe Saddam called the first gulf war "The Mother of all Wars" before we pushed his s*** in. Arab leaders have a propensity for hyperbole and overconfidence.

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Oh God.
Krypton, you fool.


Everyone knows that politics and threads on the war get locked as soon as someone makes a valid point going the other way.

FOOL I SAY!


/sarcasm


For some reason I found this slightly comical:



Anyways, A warning is fine. It serves no real purpose, true, but its just a warning. Remember, Iran is not the US. They wont give a set number of days to do something, and then just say "**** it" and start a war before the allotted amount of days is up.


And the double intensity thing (in my mind) is completely believable. The US wouldnt attack Iran with Nuclear weapons, but if Iran got provoked, they would respond with nukes (most likely), and thusly (and most likely) double the intesity of the provocation.


Or whatever.

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Seems fine to me. I'm sick of the US trying to police the world.

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Yeah, I agree with Teuthida. I want this to be the one issue where the US steps and goes.. "Maybe not."

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We need to respect the warning. It would be rude to not acknowledge it.

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The younger population will rise up against the old religious extremists and move the country in a more democratic direction. Problem solved.

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We dont know fully what Iran can do. We assume they are just another weak country. For all we know, they have a nuke or 2 right now and are just waiting for the chance to use it so that they go into the history books as the first non-us country to use a Nuke against a country.

But thats a worst case scenario but all options have to be left open.

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Yeah, well, we've waited for tha to happen before. And while experts say that Iran is 5 years away from a nuke, the experst have always been WRONG when estimating those timelines. They were wrong with Pakistan, India and Korea.

And Typhoid, I don't think I was exaggerrating at all. 1) The first gulf war lasted all of about a month, if that. 2) Saddam's been in jail for a while now. Think he hasn't had his **** pushed in?

As for the US policing the world, read The Case for Goliath. Looks like the world LIKES the US policing the them, because we're the only ones willing to do it. Just think what would happen if we didn't. I mean, we kept our noses out of Rawanda, and the rest of the world jumped on that genocide, didn't they? The rest of the world were just praying to get into Bosnia and stop that, right? Oh wait, we had to twist Un arms to do after tens fo thousands already died. The US polices intenational trade lanes on the oceans.

The US policing the world is a good thing. While the Iraq war may not be gong as planned, at least we tried to do something instead of just hoping everything works itself out.

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Absolutely well made point Prof. If it weren't for our "interference" in such matters, we'd all be speaking german now and half the world's population would have been systematically murdered.

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I totally agree with you here.

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Really, that honestly scares you? I just cant believe how, when the United States has the most powerful armed forces in the world, that Iran making a little threat could possibly scare anyone.

Re: Iran leader issues warning to US
 

the idea of war and/or something happening here does.