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Originally posted by Ittabena
reply to post by macman
I do know first hand that if given the opportunity, there are many in the ME that would wipe us out without blinking an eye.
And with what they have experienced at our hands, if you were in their place you would too.
What are you talking about. They haven't done anything to these people on this thread and they still want to wipe them out. Fox News told them so.
Originally posted by superman2012
LOL Way to refute any points.
Did it hit too close to home?
I stand behind what I said.
Yep. Never said it would not be that way. I pray to only be faster, strike harder and be more accurate then my enemy.
Originally posted by seabag
It doesn't have to be that way and nobody here is advocating violence or WAR, yet we're still called warmongers. That IS the point of the thread.
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
Sun Tzu
Originally posted by Cosmic4life
Iran does not currently have the means to produce even one weapon, when any realistic arsenal requires 50-200 + devices.
Israel is actually a side show at the moment, the real battle lines are between Sunni and Shia , Syria is mostly Sunni and will fall to the Muslim Brotherhood, the Gulf States Kuwait, Qatar etc are Shia majorities and will overthrow the Sunni Monarchs, Iraq is mostly Shia.
The Western interest is oil and banking and weapons sales....business is business.
It's not a noble cause to get behind...so i will decline.
Cosmic..
Originally posted by Ittabena
reply to post by macman
Yep. Never said it would not be that way. I pray to only be faster, strike harder and be more accurate then my enemy.
What about being morally correct? Does that not enter into your calculations? It does mine. I would rather be on the "right" side than be the bad guys. Our being the bad guys is what made them hate us. But then, they don't tell us that on T.V. so you are forgiven for not knowing it.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Originally posted by torqpoc
The analogy is fine. Your desire to take it that literally is not.
Baloney...
Originally posted by superman2012
I am not saying the USA is nazi germany, just that some of the things they do remind me of it. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Starting to understand yet?
Baloney....
Stop trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. It makes for great propaganda though
Originally posted by WozaMeathed
Hows this for half assed.
This is kind of like an oven only hotter
Baloney...
Ignoring the entire context of WW-II
Originally posted by L00kingGlass
Edit: There's no such thing as a morally good war machine. This mentality is misguided.
Baloney, Malarkey and ASSumptive...
Let me know when I can speak for myself..
Originally posted by deccal
Invasion of stupid and brainwashed Americans..AGAIN..
Originally posted by deccal
Invasion of stupid and brainwashed Americans..AGAIN..
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Originally posted by MegaMind
The Soviet Union was a threat to the US and they had thousands of nuclear weapons.
If Iran gets a nuke how is that the end of the world?
Who said anything about the end of the world? [That's what all the FEARMONGERS] talk about IF Iran is attacked. I said IF not when. People seem to forget about the possibility of Dirty bombs.
If they use it - it would surely be the end of Iran - and don't they know that?
Why should it be the end of them? They'll play the same game of cat and mouse, denial and sidestepping.
What about North Korea?
Anyone can rightfully argue North Korea's leaders are nut jobs and yet they have a nuke. Surely they would cease to exists should they ever use it - and crazy or not - they know that.
Meanwhile North Korea is a mess. Is that your best example? A nuclear armed outcast that threatens it's neighbors with total destruction? Costing Billions of dollars annually by all sides to keep them in check?
Russia and China need to clean up that mess.
They were the ones who propped them up. Not the West.
We are hearing arguments that we must start a war to prevent one!! Insane!
The US just doesn't want Iran to get a nuke before the US has a chance to invade their country.
Once Iran has one it may prevent the US from invading!!
And the US hasn't invaded Iran in 33 years because???
Imagine that! Iran getting the bomb may prevent a WAR![
Your imagination is working overtime.
So you ignored my point about the Soviet Union and how we dealt with that without going to war.
Originally posted by MegaMind
So you ignored my point about the Soviet Union and how we dealt with that without going to war.
What exactly is your point about North Korea we should have gone to war preemptively and killed hundreds of thousands of people?
And are we not going to start a war to prevent one or do rolling your eyes mean we aren't going to war to prevent one?
The US hasn't invaded Iran in 33 years because we were busy overthrowing their leaders and warring with Iraq.
If Iran had a nuke would do you think we would invade them?
Or can you not answer that question?
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by MegaMind
When the Cold War existed we had MAD. Mutually Assured Destruction. Neither side wanted total annihilation.
Now fast-forward to Iran, who has a leader that would welcome it. (re; 12th Imam)