Wow. Well, at least you are constant. Paul is not and has never been a conservative, he is a libertarian. They are not the same.
Have you ever heard of Tripoli?
I do not know what average Iranians you are talking to but it doesn’t matter the people in charge want us and Israel dead. How hard is that to understand.
Paul is wrong when he says “its just talk”, it has never been just talk.
The average Iranians are pro west & like America & ALSO want to change their government. They tried in the last election cycle but the regime repressed their choice. Attacking Iran will only harden the average Iranians just as we did to the Serbs back in 1999. We really must stop making the SAME mistake over & over again. You might want to remember that the pro war position was the original position of the Left & that the anti war position was the original position of the Right before the conservative movement was infiltrated by pro war Leftists. Pointed out right here on Free Republic [ at this old link: http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b62203120ce.htm which can be accessed right here from the Internet Archive. ] over a decade ago now.
The Iranian regime spouts off bellicose nonsense in order to intimidate but they are all bark. Just think about it for a second here. What sense does it make for them to get belligerent or ATTACK anyone considering that that would be SUICIDE & a death sentence for them. Israel alone has hundreds of nukes so if Iran were ever to foolishly attack them: they would be annihilated in short order. How hard is that to understand. All I see is the usual pro war rhetoric based on the same recycled canards. Let's get back to Constitutional principles & fix America first.