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Originally Posted by tw
We have a president so irresponsible that he was warned about 11 Sept and he did nothing to defend America.
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from the secret files of tw.
anyway - what i stand by what i said earlier. nuclear weapons are not their most effective method right now. how many thousands of americans would be killed by a decent nuc attack? what would happen to iran if they did launch a nuc attack? they would cease to exist. do you think we just sent all of our nuclear weapons to the city dump when the cold war ended? no - the US still maintains the right to counter attack in kind. iran? now you see it, now you don't. end of story.
if they were trying to deter the US they would be touting the bio weapons programs - that is what the US military really fears. a lot of dead people is a bad thing, but a lot of sick, infected, contagious people about to be dead people? that is a terrifying thing.
in the end - we just went to war because of a belief that Iraq has WMD - do you really think the best way to avoid a war, from the iranian perspective, is to taunt the US with a REAL WMD platform?
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I find it ironic that one would advocate conventional military weapons and tactics to defend Iran when those have repeatedly been proven ineffective against the US military - even in VietNam.
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if the US truly feels threatened there is no strategy that will prove effective. if the US gets off its ass and decides that a war is just and necessary and can get the schmucks in DC to unite behind it - there is nothing that can stop the US military when it is not tethered by the leash of public opinion. let's face it - that is what has stood in the way of US military success since Korea - the polls. public opinion and political gamesmanship. if the gov't were to actually realize there was a REAL threat and they pulled it together, the US military has the ability to devastate all comers.