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It Doesn’t Matter if Iran Can Build a Bomb. It Matters if America Has the Guts To Bomb Them, Again
The Daily Signal YT Channel ^ | June 26 2025 | victor davis hanson

Posted on 06/27/2025 6:33:20 AM PDT by texas booster

Leaked defense intelligence documents obtained by CNN allege that last Saturday night’s strike against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure only set the country’s nuclear program back a few months.

However, the CIA reported this week that it would take “years” for Iran to rebuild its nuclear capabilities.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Iran; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: vdh; victordavishanson
Bottom line: It doesn’t matter how long it takes Iran to rebuild its nuclear weapon’s program. What matters is will the next presidential administration have the courage to take the Iranian threat serious and bomb them, again, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words:”
1 posted on 06/27/2025 6:33:20 AM PDT by texas booster
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00:00 Introduction and Initial Reactions
00:32 Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Strike
01:00 Public and Political Reactions
02:25 Rebuilding Challenges for Iran
04:17 Strategic Implications and Future Concerns
05:57 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Worth your time for this 6 minute Prof Hanson video.

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2 posted on 06/27/2025 6:34:51 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

Guess who kept Saddam and Syria from from going at it a 2nd time.


3 posted on 06/27/2025 6:35:50 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: texas booster

The danger in any future nuclear program in Iran is that instead of building future sites in remote regions, they may decide to build underground in urban areas, making another B 2 strike impossible.

These Ayatollahs love to take hostages, it’s their modus operandi, and with their inherent lack of respect for human life, they could very easily use their own populations as hostages.

We would know through satellite data what they’re doing, but next time a ground invasion might be inevitable.

Regime change should be our objective, even if we say it isn’t.


4 posted on 06/27/2025 6:45:39 AM PDT by Thapsus_epiphany (Socialism is a prison, Communism is a death camp )
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Regime change should be our objective, even if we say it isn’t.

It's not like it would be Iran's first CIA driven regime change...

5 posted on 06/27/2025 6:48:38 AM PDT by null and void (Democrats: fake news, fake presidents, fake beliefs, fake policies, fake protesters & fake voters!)
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To: Thapsus_epiphany

No problem. Offer a short window to allow evacuation of civilians but not long enough to remove material and bomb away. Sort of like 48hours and bomb after 24 like Trump just did. Offer an out but Keep the element of surprise. Based on his track record, I’d leave sooner than later.


6 posted on 06/27/2025 7:04:47 AM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: texas booster

How many times are CNN’s lies going to be repeated?


7 posted on 06/27/2025 7:07:49 AM PDT by Judge Bean
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To: texas booster

We should offer Iran a chance to have strict, independent inspections to prevent them from trying to build a bomb again. If they turn down that offer, we should assure them that in the absence of other reliable information, we will accept statements of Israeli intelligence as true and correct, and will bomb any facility Israel identifies as being used for bomb research or development.

Outrageous? Well, they had a choice of independent inspections. Any bombing casualties or destruction is a result of their choice.


8 posted on 06/27/2025 7:11:59 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Thapsus_epiphany
Regime change should be our objective, even if we say it isn’t.

Let's be deceitful about our intentions and gaslight people about it.

That's the Western neo-liberal mindset in a nutshell

9 posted on 06/27/2025 7:29:08 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: mac_truck

Honesty in politics is not only rare and unusual, it can be deadly.

Why deal with all the hostility that will come with an honest assessment of reality when the safety and security of America and the Free World is at stake?

The Ayatollahs were honest about their intentions, and look what happened to them.


10 posted on 06/27/2025 8:47:53 AM PDT by Thapsus_epiphany (Socialism is a prison, Communism is a death camp )
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To: ripnbang

This might work if we have another president like Trump when the time comes.


11 posted on 06/27/2025 8:49:36 AM PDT by Thapsus_epiphany (Socialism is a prison, Communism is a death camp )
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To: null and void

Yes, they’ve been doing that since the Dulles brothers in the 1940s and in a perfect world we could stop doing this, maybe.


12 posted on 06/27/2025 8:52:15 AM PDT by Thapsus_epiphany (Socialism is a prison, Communism is a death camp )
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To: null and void
Regime change should be our objective, even if we say it isn’t.
It's not like it would be Iran's first CIA driven regime change…
There’s no gainsaying that the CIA installed the Shah whom the Ayatola overthrew. I will add that my uncle told me that he had commercial dealings in pre-ayatolah Iran, and he asserted that the shah’s regime was unstable and my uncle didn’t think it would be safe for him to go back to Iran.

Jimmy Carter basically pulled the plug on the Shah, and the ayatollah took over. That was then, and this is now. Just think what Iran has gone thru since then! The thanks Carter got from the Ayatollah was the takeover of our embassy, and months of TV coverage entitled, “America Held Hostage.”

During the Reagan Administration, not too much was publicly made of the fact that the US Navy eviscerated Iran’s navy - but that happened.

Subsequently Iran went to war with Saddam’s Iraq, and an awful lot of Iranians got drafted as cannon fodder and killed. Which was never going to happen to the citizens of a pro-American Iran under the Shah. America would either have influenced a peace deal - or assured that Iran wasn’t on the ropes in any fight with Saddam. Instead of withdrawing US sales of spare parts for the F-14s the Shah had bought.

. . . and American economic sanctions against Iran wouldn’t have happened either. Under the Shah, IIRC, Iran engaged in commerce with Israel.


13 posted on 06/30/2025 1:14:23 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion
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