I too would not like to see Iran's mullahs have possession of nuclear weapons for five more years.
Fortunately, this is a goal already realised, because they cannot develop nuclear weapons in five years. The international intelligence community has said, over and over again, that Iran is a decade away from a working nuclear weapon at best.
This should be known to anyone who follows international news from even halfways reputable sources, but reputable sources are harder to come by than they used to be. To help you out, here's an article from the Washington Post from six months ago: www.washingtonpost.com/wp...01453.html
A casual Google search will bring you many, many other stories from a variety of sources pointing out the self-evident fact that Tehran, just like Iraq, is nowhere near a nuclear weapon.
Bombing Iran is, not to put too fine a point on it, insane. There are many, many reasons why this is a bad idea. It will eradicate what little credibility the United States has left. It will lead to increased terrorism by an order of magnitude. It will lead to repurcussions from China and Russia, who both have a great deal of interest in Iran and much to lose if the United States took control of the government. Moreover, bombing them will almost certainly not topple the Iranian government, much like the decade-long bombing of Iraq did nothing to depose Saddam Hussein (except more so). If the United States wants to stop Iran from doing virtually anything, you will have to invade, and that is a war you are completely unprepared for. It's been said before that a war with Iran is one thing could actually finish off America as a superpower. It's very possibly true.
And using nuclear weapons? Even more insane. Grotesquely so. Inexcusably so. Think. Think of the precedent that sets, for a first world nation to use nuclear weapons on a third-world one in an unprovoked preemptive strike. My god. What then will you say when Russia uses nukes on Chechnya? What then will you say when China destroys Taiwan? What stops North Korea from destroying Seoul? That is a pandora's box that can never be closed.
Someone can hold different political views than you, and no matter how strenuously you disagree, you can respect and perhaps even understand why they do. But a unilateral, preemptive, unprovoked attack by the United States on Iran, using nuclear weapons, is madness. Sheer, unadulterated madness. The United States will already be paying for its folly in Iraq for a long, long time. You will be lucky if the worst thing that occurs from an attack on Iran is your great-grandchildren still paying the debts incurred because of it.
Fortunately, this is a goal already realised, because they cannot develop nuclear weapons in five years. The international intelligence community has said, over and over again, that Iran is a decade away from a working nuclear weapon at best.
This should be known to anyone who follows international news from even halfways reputable sources, but reputable sources are harder to come by than they used to be. To help you out, here's an article from the Washington Post from six months ago: www.washingtonpost.com/wp...01453.html
A casual Google search will bring you many, many other stories from a variety of sources pointing out the self-evident fact that Tehran, just like Iraq, is nowhere near a nuclear weapon.
Bombing Iran is, not to put too fine a point on it, insane. There are many, many reasons why this is a bad idea. It will eradicate what little credibility the United States has left. It will lead to increased terrorism by an order of magnitude. It will lead to repurcussions from China and Russia, who both have a great deal of interest in Iran and much to lose if the United States took control of the government. Moreover, bombing them will almost certainly not topple the Iranian government, much like the decade-long bombing of Iraq did nothing to depose Saddam Hussein (except more so). If the United States wants to stop Iran from doing virtually anything, you will have to invade, and that is a war you are completely unprepared for. It's been said before that a war with Iran is one thing could actually finish off America as a superpower. It's very possibly true.
And using nuclear weapons? Even more insane. Grotesquely so. Inexcusably so. Think. Think of the precedent that sets, for a first world nation to use nuclear weapons on a third-world one in an unprovoked preemptive strike. My god. What then will you say when Russia uses nukes on Chechnya? What then will you say when China destroys Taiwan? What stops North Korea from destroying Seoul? That is a pandora's box that can never be closed.
Someone can hold different political views than you, and no matter how strenuously you disagree, you can respect and perhaps even understand why they do. But a unilateral, preemptive, unprovoked attack by the United States on Iran, using nuclear weapons, is madness. Sheer, unadulterated madness. The United States will already be paying for its folly in Iraq for a long, long time. You will be lucky if the worst thing that occurs from an attack on Iran is your great-grandchildren still paying the debts incurred because of it.