Originally Posted by Robbie

I would say that a lot of the people that dynamo is listing who describe Iran as a "terrorist" state have a vested interest in war-mongering. They make a lot of money for their cronies in the defense contracting industry by making sure we always have a boogeyman that we need to spend so much money on for "defense". And that includes both Democrat and Republican bureaucrats.

I'm not saying that Iran isn't "dangerous" or whatever...but hell, who is more dangerous than the United States?
We actually invade other countries without them attacking us first. We actually USED nuclear weapons on people. We spy on everyone around the world (including our own citizens). And if our govt. gets it's way...we'll have our own version of the "Berlin Wall" across Mexico.

I got a feeling that most countries leaders are far more afraid of the United States than we are of them.

I mean...we spend more than the next ten countries combined on our military. And Iran is nowhere NEAR that league of countries.

And again...just how DO you pretend to be everybody's boss and "stop" them from building a nuclear bomb?
Science is science. This ain't 1945. And there are scientists in every developed country who KNOW how to make them.
Do we kill them all? Do we inject them with something that will erase their memory?

I'm not arguing. Just thinking out loud.

This is not what our country is SUPPOSED to be. We are supposed to be that "beacon of hope" to the world.
Now, if our bureaucrats can actually broker a deal that offers Iran enough incentive (by relaxing the sanctions we've had on them for decades) to not build a weapon...that's great!
But thinking that we are "allowing" them or any other sovereign nation to do anything they want it very egotistical.