America would lose on both counts.
Really depends on how you choose to define these terms.
You really like the Mullahs.
Conservative Muslims preach "Death to America".
Conservative in what way?
They have been radically aggressive in search of influence and territory since the fall of the Shah.
Doesn’t Iran sponsor Hamas?
In the words of that immortal foreign policy expert, Billy Joel,
You may be right. I might be crazy. But it just might be a lunatic youre looking for.
All this war talk is meaningless. I think Trump is trolling these ragheads and keeping them on edge. You can carry a gun but you don’t have to use it to defuse situations.
Huh? Wut?
I vote we kick their ass and take their gas!!
We all have our own opinions on war and international conflict, but the fact of the matter is only the President and his security team has all the information to come to that decision.
Much of that information we are not privy to, and neither is the press.
That is exactly why we have to have a Commander-in-Chief we can trust. So the only question is: do you trust this President’s judgement?
It is very telling how many pro Iranian articles are appearing in the last month in American media. Virtually none discuss the inherent hostility the mullahs exhibit to America and its allies and the danger of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons. While it is true that most Americans do not wish another US war in the region, most do not value the hostage taking medieval mullahs or the regime that supplied so many IEDs and arms that killed and maimed many Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It is obvious that this concerted propaganda effort is being made because the sanctions are such a powerful smokeless weapon. The mullah regime is very hard pressed. There is ruinous inflation, social unrest and food shortages within Iran as the sale of their oil and access to international banking has been severely crimped by the sanctions. The mullah frustration is growing. It is extremely unlikely that the US will draw first blood, which historically is almost always a long term detriment. However a single, agitated jihadist junior Revolutionary Guard officer could initiate the conflagration so devoutly wished by the neo cons and others.
you’re right, let’s wait till they have the bomb and ICBMs
Okay.
Maybe we just hit them in the head with a rock and see what happens...
Stopped reading this BS right there.
Both Bob and Scott are libertarian antiwar types. This sort of thinking allows social pathologies to grow and become existentially dangerous.
The incredibly disasterus Jimmy Carter really brought you the Islamic state and Obongo made it worse. Left alone they will develop atomic weapons.
Keep clearly in mind that if they get the bomb they are crazy enough to use it.
A couple of missiles tipped with hydrogen bombs would not cost all that much.
Iran likely has numerous sleeper cells here.
No need for a “war”. But due to Iran being responsible for thousands of GI amputees (IED’s via “proxies”) and deaths during Iraq, we need to keep turning the screws on them economically (like the current situation) and make sure they don’t get nukes. And hope the “citizens” rise up against the Mullahs due to hard times.
We wouldn’t have a put a single boot on the ground to make the people of Iran hang their mullahs from lamposts on the city streets. In one night, remove their boats, aircraft, power plants, nuclear refineries, bridges, and crossroads.
No one is calling for an attack on Iran. This is an opinion piece from a rag created by irving Kristol ( yes Billys dad) a notorious neocon
This piece is just so much crapola
Bill is that you??
We can destroy their nuclear facilities their air force and their naval forces... just as a warning.