Nice rant. All I wanted to do was point out, again, that a unilateral strike by Israel is extremely unlikely due to logistics. But I did enjoy the rant.

In the context of your post this is a bit of a false dichotomy. Most opponents to premtive strikes on Iran rank their preferred realities as:

1. Iran doesn't pursue nuclear weapons.
2. Iran does pursue nuclear weapons and is left alone to do so.
3. Iran does pursue nuclear weapons and aggressive action is taken to prevent them from building one.

This is a response to that article: http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel-s...-easy-1.413795

Points out that while it would be very difficult, their defense spending and preparations for the past decade or so has been setting them up for an operation of this nature

Thanks. It was a good rant, wasn't it? :-) My point being that, no matter how unlikely, or difficult, you'll be better off it succeeds should it come down to it.

You're right about the false dichotomy - I was posting from the perspective that Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons and that action must be taken to stop them. Aggressive action, considering passive action (diplomacy) hasn't done anything but allow Iran to stall in hopes of furthering their program (peaceful or not).

What diplomacy has been tried?

How do we know "they are trying to develop a nuclear weapon?"

Speaking of false dichotomy, how about "glad for those so save my freedom" rant? You realize if they were to get a nuclear weapon they could never use it with their entire country being annihilated right?

Dude, they know all about the "yellow cake" that was being shipped......


Wait, wrong evidence, wrong country. Sorry.

Thanks for posting!

Good enough for gubment work.

Please God ten dollar a gallon gas ONE TIME

You must really want us to invade Iran.

I think we'd be better off with Iran having nukes.

Read this, and learn all you need to know.

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/fil...n_strategy.pdf

Parts of this outline the American plan, they don't even hide this **** anymore!

Also, this blog entry, educate yourself-

http://djosiris.blogspot.com/2011/09...-all-lies.html

Incredible piece on Libya and also later on discusses a lot of the lies we are fed. Just incredibly stuff really.

Entering the 21st century, and obviously before, the whole media story of the middle east is a sham of epic proportions.

Iraq- reason to go there- bull**** propoganda!

Libya- reasons to go there- bull**** propoganda!

Syria is on the news now, the evidence is overwhelming that CIA backed terrorists and snipers are killing civilians, research it for ****'s sake! The media is making us feel for the poor people and we'll intervene sooner or later.

Syria just happens to be Iran's final ally in the region, the regime will be gone there.

Then Iran, it is all planned- the problem is, other nations (Russia and China) are not going to sit back and let us attack Iran, so basically, make the most of life as you know it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVE8r...layer_embedded