[mountainlion]

Is there any islamic state that has not threatened war with us infidels?

[SMARTY]

I wonder.

Since we hold all the cards... do we just need to enforce the existing sanctions and initiate more?

No need for fighting... unless THEY provoke

[TexasFreeper2009]

I have been wondering my whole life why we haven’t leveled that God forsaken country!

[NonValueAdded]

Wasn’t it always? /rhetorical

[Morpheus2009]

We can only keep it under the rug for so long, sadly enough.

[marktwain]

Iran shipped all its 20 percent enriched uranium out of the country, shut down most of its centrifuges, and allowed intrusive inspections of all nuclear facilities. Even before the deal, 17 U.S. intelligence agencies said they could find no evidence of an Iranian nuclear bomb program.

---

And we know this from where? Not what I have been reading for years.

[Ancesthntr]

War with Iran was always inevitable. Anybody who ever believed otherwise was only fooling themselves.

[marktwain]

I used to like Buchanan.

But he has become an isolationist that thinks it is in our best interest to ignore everything else on the planet, no matter how much they threaten us, call for our destruction, and plot against us.

Iran has been fighting a proxy war with us for nearly 30 years, and has constantly been calling for our destruction the entire time.

But Pat thinks it perfectly OK to allow them to dominate the region and export war and destruction all over the globe.

[FlipWilson]

I’m sorry, maybe my memory is foggy. Who bombed our Marines in Beirut? Who took our embassy personnel hostage? Who was behind the bombing of the Khobar Towers? Who recently seized our sailors in the Persian Gulf? Who actively supports terrorism around the world?

War with Iran?!?! They are certainly at war with us. But hey, Pat Buchanan doesn’t think so.

[American Constitutionalist]

Provide the means for the freedom loving people in Iran to topple the evil Mullah Islamic regime in Iran.
Ronald Reagan only provided air support to topple Marcos in the Philippines.
Give them air support and logistics support.

[elpadre]

didn’t begin in 1979?

[PJammers]

A bunch of BS. We have been at war with Iran since the Islamic revolution. We just ignored it.

Iran is using Venezuela’s narco/terrorist government to utilize cartel drug routes into the US. Drugs, weapons, human traffic and terrorists have been streaming accross the border for years.

Guns used for “Fast and Furious” have been found in terrorist attacks in Europe.

I can’t believe there are people on this thread appoligizing for thier behaviour.

[PJammers]

Let me add, we didn’t lose on Syria or Kurdistan. Actually, the GCC won, with our backing.

The paradigm has shifted. We are no longer taking the lead in these conflicts. We now work with our allies to help them solve thier own problems. Then we leave.

The Iran problem will be solved by middle east states. We will be there to help them. The same will happen with North Korea btw.

[Robert357]

We have been in an undeclared war with Iran and its State sponsored international terrorism for many decades. Where it is declared or not will not change much, except our military’s ability to freely kill the terrorists when there are found.

[Rockingham]

Buchanan misses the point that Iran aims not to build an actual stockpile of nuclear weapons but to become a so-called virtual nuclear power with the technical capacity and materials on hand needed to fashion a nuclear weapons stockpile in a short period of time. In such a position, Iran's strategic leverage is dramatically increased. To check Iranian power, her Sunni adversaries will then feel compelled to match or one up Iran by also becoming actual or virtual nuclear powers.

Call me a pessimist, an interventionist, or even a warmonger, but standing by as Iran and then other locals in the Mideast become proficient in nuclear weapons technology does not seem consistent with American national interests. Keeping nuclear weapons from proliferating in a region that is rife with "Death-To-America" sentiment seems like an obvious and sensible strategic goal.

[Impy]

I see no reason why Americans need to die in Iran.