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Originally Posted by JU_88
You make sound like we fighting an enermy with equal capacity to attack us on the same scale as we can attack them. Not the case with islamic terrorists.
The threat that terrorists actuallly pose to you and me is next to nothing, even if you discount the last two wars - we are more likey to die of cancer, be hit be a car, or murdered by one of our fellow citizens (in that order)
The war on terror has little or nothing to do with terrorism, our governments did not invade iraq and afganistan to prevent a another 9/11
you think they would spent trillions of dollars and soldiers lives just for that? Its totally uneconomical.
You dont need me to tell you the real reasons.
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The threat of a nuclear Iran is not them sending an ICBM to America or Europe, although they are gaining the technology to build such missiles.
The threat is prolifertion of a nuclear suitcase bomb to terrorist proxies of theirs. Or several.
The threat is Western nations being vulnerable to nuclear blackmailing.
The threat is that they realise their threat to wipe out the biggest hate object there is in Islam: Jews (=the Jewish state). They said so often enough. You have had a glimpse inside their heads convincing you that they do not mean what they say? Remember, you are talking not about rational, cold-blooded politics, but irrational religious ressentiments.
The threat is a nuclear arms race, since several players like Egypt, Turkey and Saudi Arabia will not sit still being intimidated by a nculear armed rival such as Sunni Persia. And such an arms race in that region full of animosities! Religious irrationalism! Centuries-old hate! Ovber one m illenia of (unsolved) internal civil war! You will crave to get back the cold war instead, by comparison.
If I would be in need of an enemy to overhwelm and to wipe out, I would love to have somebody like you.
And that should make you think.
P.S. And one idea you can delete from your script: Israel is not about forming a bridgehead in the Gulf to secure control of Iranian oil!