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Posted on 02/26/2026 3:26:03 PM PST by Kazan
On Tuesday night, President Trump made his case for attacking Iran.
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Perhaps we ought to ask ourselves if an attack on Iran is prudent or desirable.
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In his address, Trump argued that Iran was in the process of developing intercontinental ballistic missiles to hit the United States.
This assertion is farcical and risible. Iran simply has no ability to hit the United States, and even if it did, the doctrine of classical deterrence would come into play. The United States and the Soviet Union had thousands of nuclear-armed ICBMs targeted at each other for decades yet never engaged in direct conflict. China has ICBMs that could hit the United States, but no one is talking about bombing Beijing.
The claim that we need to hit Iran because Iran might get ICBMs sometime in the future is nothing more than an updated version of the “Iraq has Weapons of Mass Destruction” argument pitched by the Bush administration in 2003. We now know that that wasn’t true.
When you get right down to it, there really is no good reason to pre-emptively attack Iran, which has never attacked the U.S. and has no immediate capability to do so. When you cut through the excuses, it’s basically because Iran has a repressive, fundamentalist theocratic government, and we don’t like that.
So what if they do, though? When did it become our business to depose foreign governments we deem “repressive”?
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The conservative position is to mind our own business right here before getting involved in unnecessary military adventures in the Middle East. We have raging inflation, astronomical health care costs, a $39-trillion debt, and millions of illegal aliens.
Let’s heed the words of our Founders and tend to our own garden. It’s the truly conservative option.
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I’m not sure I know what “Conservative” means at this point. I’m probably a Christian Nationalist these days. America first. Screw the Muslims. If we can get rid of the mullahs and put a secularist like Pahlavi in power, I’m happy.
Once again, the russian stooge from Tatarstan is trying to run interference for putin’s good buddies, the islamofascists in Iran.
Mutually Assured Destruction only worked because the Russians love their children, too.
The mullahs worship death.
“If we can get rid of the mullahs and put a secularist like Pahlavi in power, I’m happy.”
Do we then station US troops in Iran to keep Pahlavi in power?
Can we get legit elections in the US first? Can we stop the narco-communist take over of our own country first?
I agee with this article. Iraq and Afghanistan are the reasons I no longer support these middle east debacles.
Our country is a mess and this needs to be taken care of first.
I wouldn’t want that. As far as I can tell, the Iranian people are tired of the mullahs. A secularist government ought to be able to keep itself in power.
He’s a sellout.
There is no better opportunity to rid a world of a dangerous government.
Correct, the MAD doctrine doesn’t work Islamic death cultists. For some reason many have a hard time comprehending that.
No, and those people have never said they want him as their leader.
We would hear the usual, “we just need to station troops there until they have an election” BS.
They already have hit the US and they didn’t need missiles. They were players in the 911 attack and they will attempt to do us harm at every turn. Their tech is bolstered by Chinese tech. Anyone who claims Iran’s capabilities are farcical, is shortsighted……
If I wanted a Sunni Muslim in the White House I would have voted for Lindsey Graham.
The author claims that “we have raging inflation,” which is untrue. This inaccuracy alone makes me question the overall credibility of the article.
“Correct, the MAD doctrine doesn’t work Islamic death cultists. For some reason many have a hard time comprehending that.”
They very much know it. They just don’t care because they want something else, most typically the destruction of Israel.
I’m not sure from where this idea of a government change in Iran comes.
I think that the administration has made it very clear that their plan is to remove Iran’s ability to project its government’s wishes beyond its borders. Nothing has been said, to my knowledge, about the government that will be left.
No one will trust whatever government you are imagining in Iran to run Uranium centrifuges and conduct missile research.
The Middle East will be much more stable, in my opinion, with an Iran living wholly in the Seventh Century.
They could simply smuggle in the U-235, which isn’t very radioactive.
The rest of the bomb could be made in the USA.
How many American lives would be that be worth?
Would it be worth Democrats sweeping back into power if things go poorly?
And, more secular Iranian government likely isn't going to be anymore US friendly. In fact, a more secular government is more likely to sign a defense pact with China and Russia.
And, if we end up losing American lives in a protracted war, Democrats will take back both the House and Senate.
That risk takes priority over anything going on in Iran, which most Americans couldn't give a hoot about.
My two cents worth:
1) An argument for attacking Iran via the Monroe Doctrine is that Iran has been buddy-buddy with Venezuela, including military partnership talks. Is Venezuela still buddies with Iran after we got Maduro? If so, I might lean towards attacking Iran.
2) But then, the protests in Iran give me pause. If we do attack Iran it needs to be very careful to not stir up the masses to support the mullahs out of national patriotism. An attack on Iran could help the protestors (instead of swaying them to change their minds) only if the attack is quick and very targeted at the mullahs.
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