You said: Iran is our problem too. We should have put an end to their nuclear ambitions years ago. They’ve gone way to far, and we should have pulverized them for it.
I ask: You mean the way Reagan won the Cold War by bombing Russia?
Oh wait, Reagan didn’t bomb Russia - but he still won the cold war!
How could that be? Isn’t the only way to prevail against adversarsies, to “pulverize” them?
Hmmm — Maybe not!
Russia was a problem, but it did operate with some sense of civilized rules. It didn’t for instance provide nuclear weapons to terrorists. Iran can’t wait to give weapons to third parties to use against targets around the world.
Now that Iran is going to have the bomb, so will Saudi Arabia, and a number of other Middle-Eastern nations. Each of them will be able to proliferate bombs or harder to track, bits and pieces or mere technological know-how.
These nations don’t operate by the same rules the U.S.S.R. and the United States used during the cold war. Comparing what Reagan had to deal with to this “Free-for-all” that we’re looking at here, isn’t apples to apples.
Once Iran has this technology, it doesn’t have to give a terrorist group an actual bomb. They’ll merely give them some components, and help them develop the bomb in some secret place in parts, so it can be brought to the U. S. in pieces, assembled, and detonated.
This is going to cause proliferation on steroids, and it’s going to get very ugly in short order.
Sometimes it is best for the big nation to act like a tyrant if the little nation won’t live like a civilized player. Iran has been looking for a bloody nose for decades.
We let it act like a spoiled child out of control, and we’re going to pay dearly for that.
Hitler could and should have been stopped before Poland, and certainly by the time France was invaded. Politicians dither, and young men have to clean up their mistakes.