I could be wrong, but I thought no WMD's were found post Iraq invasion. Do you guys have any sources confirming WMD's were found?
Also, I think I'm gonna have to disagree with your conclusion that the only way we can keep Iran from nuking Israel or the US is through force. That pretty much seems like the complete opposite way to go about it, it doesn't really work very well when we go in, kill a lot of innocent people, steal resources and create more extremist terrorists willing to strap a few pounds of C4 to their chest and take out a few dozen other innocent people...
I can't see any realistic solution to an invasion with Iran. I think what would happen is we'd lose a lot of American soldiers, a lot of Iranian soldiers and more than likely, just like Iraq, an uncountable number of civilians would be killed, we'd lose even more credibility in the international community with our 3rd invasion in a decade, we'd increase our national debt by an enormous amount, something that at this moment we could not afford, we would create a hundred times more 'terrorists' effectively creating an even worse future for the next generations of Americans, we wouldn't have nearly as much support as we did at the beginning of the Iraq invasion, I mean, the list of why we shouldn't invade goes on and on..
Don't you think a better solution might be to negotiate with Iran, see what realistic compromises we can both agree on, and go from there? You say 'they can't be reasoned with', which is a fallacy, anyone who want's something can be reasoned with. You say if they obtain nuclear capability they will, in your mind, strike Israel or the US without question. Do you have any idea what kind of a response Iran would get from the rest of the world if that happened? Sanctions, regulations, rules, war crimes trials, executions, penalties, I mean seriously, that's completely unrealistic, and that's one of the major reasons no country has used an atomic bomb since ww2. Iran is not stupid, they know if they were to nuke anyone the future of their country would be at stake, the people of Iran know this too, they would never support a nuclear strike against Israel or the US, even with the amount of hate you believe they all seem to have for us. They've all seen what has happened to the infastructure and economies of Iraq and Afghanistan, why would they think it would be any different with Iran?
We've held the position of 'no negotiating with Iran' for so long and nothing has changed, if anything relations between us and the Iranian government have gotten worse because of this. The only solution I see is negotiation. You can't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun and you can't force anyone to do or believe anything. Using force would do nothing but damage the entire picture and make it even harder for us to negotiate some kind of deal or peace or even neutrality between us in the future. So again I say, negotiation is the only way to fix this problem.
Also, I'd like to point out the example of the recent elections in Iraq, we've got thousands of people emerging out of that country with secular ideas and new ways of thinking other than religious ones, the ones that got us here in the first place. Just goes to show that even the middle east is changing, and not all the people in the area think that all non-muslims are less than human and should be killed without question. They're starting to realize things like peace and prosperity are more important than ancient immoral beliefs.
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