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Originally Posted by Oberon
If I had that answer I'm sure MOSSAD would have contacted me already.
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Why making it co9mplicated - it isn'T. Either one accepts to bomb Iran'S industrial and scneitifc capabilties minto9 th stoneage, which proibbaly can also be used with the well-chosen use of mini-nukes for selected key favciitlies already that much hardened that you cannot reach them in a different weay, or you accept Iran goping nuclear, and a nuzclear arms race in the region with all the uncalculaltable risks that I repeatedly have outlined.
It is a draconic choice, yes, nevertheless: complicated the issue is not. Not at all.
I think that people ver yoften know from beginning on what to do and what is right and what is wroing. But it often takes us a long time longer to admit to ourselves that we already know.
The critical tikjme criterion is no US elections, or fantasised last-minute successes in diplo9macy, but when Iran has become unvulnerable by hagin g m oved to much of its prog ram intop hardened mountain bunkers that can no longer be reached. It is there when the match will get decided. Whenh they have acchieved that, a war hgas become piointless, and the nuclear race has become a certainty, and our all survival on a global scale has become m ore uncertain than ever durin g the cold war, with the exception maybe of the Cuba crisis. A nuclear arms race in the ME will compare to a Cuba crisis every damn day of the year.
I am not wiulling to accept that risk, and that is why I find the choice to make vey easy. Grim, bitter - but nevertheless easy. In four words, it sounds like this:
better them, than us.
You see a third option that could function without needing to ignore reality?
I say "I will kill you", and you see me starting to swing the barrel of my gun at your direction. What do you do? Wait until I'm finished and can kill you any split of a second - or trying to shoot me before I get ready to pull the trigger?
I fail to see the difficulty in these decisions. To me, the hesitation just indicates that people are terrified by the consequences of one's own decision. And maybe I am terrified , too. But terrified or not, Iran continues to move its prgram out of reach from Western bombardements, and the necessity to decide whether we allow it or not does not become smaller.
He who allows himself to get stunned by his hesitation, already has lost.
I just wish the Us woulds throw in all firepower it could bring together from all around the globe. For the task in question, there is no such thing than exaggerated firepower and "too much". And I realyl wish that Europe would pay majhpor parts of the bill, if it does not fight. After all, Europe is closer to and more dependant on the Gulf, than America.