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Should the free world put together a military force to invade Iran?

Should the free world put together a military force to disarm Iran?


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I honestly believe the only way to assure there is peace in the middle east is to keep countries like Iran and Syria disarmed.

What do you folks think?
 
No! I don't want to be the one's responsible for starting WWIII. We should let Israel and Iran duke it out alone if it comes to that and use our power to make sure no-one else gets ivolved.

Or else

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I honestly believe the only way to assure there is peace in the middle east is to keep countries like Iran and Syria disarmed.

What do you folks think?

I doubt any of the other nations would do anything.Lets face it the UN is full of ******s.THe US,Britian and few other countries are the only ones with enough balls to do something about Iran.Although I do not like the Idea of invading Iran because the others nation's idea of help is a few thousand troops while the US send in over a hundred thousand.
 
Vader said:
I honestly believe the only way to assure there is peace in the middle east is to keep countries like Iran and Syria disarmed.

What do you folks think?

What hubris! Who are we to say we can have all the arms and nukes we want, in fact we've even used them, while countries that we don't like can't ? Nuclear disarmament isn't going to happen until we take the lead.
 
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knicksin2010 said:
No! I don't want to be the one's responsible for starting WWIII. We should let Israel and Iran duke it out alone if it comes to that and use our power to make sure no-one else gets ivolved.

Or else

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If Israel and Iran duke it out, they will nuke each other and other countries, whether they want to get involved or not, will be forced to get involved because of the willingness of both Israel and Iran to nuke each other, which the effects of the use of those nuclear weapons will spread to other parts of the globe.
 
TimmyBoy said:
If Israel and Iran duke it out, they will nuke each other and other countries, whether they want to get involved or not, will be forced to get involved because of the willingness of both Israel and Iran to nuke each other, which the effects of the use of those nuclear weapons will spread to other parts of the globe.

SWEET. Where can i sign up to push the nuke button? :rofl
 
Only if Saudi Arabia is included too.
 
Now you would think after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the United States should have seperated itself from all nuclear connections right? But i guess since we're big bad America we get to keep ours. Well that's not fair to third world countries. How can America expect the Middle Eastern nations t give up their nukes when we still carry them! America has to get rid of their nukes then they should ask other M.E. nations to do the same.
 
MrAchilles said:
Now you would think after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the United States should have seperated itself from all nuclear connections right? But i guess since we're big bad America we get to keep ours. Well that's not fair to third world countries. How can America expect the Middle Eastern nations t give up their nukes when we still carry them! America has to get rid of their nukes then they should ask other M.E. nations to do the same.

Who in the same hill do you think you are? Do you even know anything about foreign affairs? I swear the mods really need to start screening all the newbs. :lol:
 
MrAchilles said:
Now you would think after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the United States should have seperated itself from all nuclear connections right? But i guess since we're big bad America we get to keep ours. Well that's not fair to third world countries. How can America expect the Middle Eastern nations t give up their nukes when we still carry them! America has to get rid of their nukes then they should ask other M.E. nations to do the same.

I completely had this mind set until I learned about the difference between first and second strike capabilities. First strike capabilty is being able to hit first and limit your enemy's abillity to retaliate to acceptable levels. Second strike capabiltity is the ability to absord an enemy's attack and still have enough weapons to inflict unacceptable damage on them. The US and Russia have second strike capabilty. All developing nuclear powers have first strike capability. Big deal you say. Well, say you're a country with first strike capability and you here news that your enemy is planning on attacking your weapons silos. What do you do? If they attack it, that's it. You won't be able to attack them anymore. So you attack first. That's the danger of countries with first strike capability. It is too easily taken away, so they become trigger happy. A country that only has first strike is tempted to attack by the belief that his opponent could not retaliate. A county that has second strike capabilty knows that it can strike back so it is not tempted to strike first.
 
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Kelzie said:
I completely had this mind set until I learned about the difference between first and second strike capabilities. First strike capabilty is being able to hit first and limit your enemy's abillity to retaliate to acceptable levels. Second strike capabiltity is the ability to absord an enemy's attack and still have enough weapons to inflict unacceptable damage on them. The US and Russia have second strike capabilty. All developing nuclear powers have first strike capability. Big deal you say. Well, say you're a country with first strike capability and you here news that your enemy is planning on attacking your weapons silos. What do you do? If they attack it, that's it. You won't be able to attack them anymore. So you attack first. That's the danger of countries with first strike capability. It is too easily taken away, so they become trigger happy. A country that only has first strike is tempted to attack by the belief that his opponent could not retaliate. A county that has second strike capabilty knows that it can strike back so it is not tempted to strike first.


Yea, well...
 

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Yea, well...

Freakin people. I swear. I never said that the Russian military is anywhere near equal to the US's. Not that it is in any way relevant to the disccusion, but they have over 7,000 nukes. Even if we could wipe out...say 5/6 of their missiles in our first strike (which is very optimistic), that would leave about 1200 nukes left for them to retalitate with. Do you think that is acceptable damage? This is why the US and Russia would NEVER attack each other.
 
First off I want to say that Skilmatic has some anger management issues and needs to learn how to conduct himself on public forums. Secondly I want to thank Kelzie for clearing that up for me. My political science teacher taught us about first strike last year but i guess he failed to mention second strike. It's actually common sense once you think about, being how strong America is and all.
 
Thanks a lot teacher. I hope to learn a lot hear. and i already am.
 
MrAchilles said:
First off I want to say that Skilmatic has some anger management issues and needs to learn how to conduct himself on public forums. Secondly I want to thank Kelzie for clearing that up for me. My political science teacher taught us about first strike last year but i guess he failed to mention second strike. It's actually common sense once you think about, being how strong America is and all.

:lol: No problem. I just remember thinking the same as you literally a month ago. Like: where was the US getting off saying other countries can't have nukes.

My best choice would be that nobody has them. But my second best would be that only second strike capable countries would have them.
 
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Freakin people. I swear. I never said that the Russian military is anywhere near equal to the US's. Not that it is in any way relevant to the disccusion, but they have over 7,000 nukes. Even if we could wipe out...say 5/6 of their missiles in our first strike (which is very optimistic), that would leave about 1200 nukes left for them to retalitate with. Do you think that is acceptable damage? This is why the US and Russia would NEVER attack each other.


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Oh my..........

I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It just feels like I've been debating this forever with SKIL who won't get it through his head. The US military is superior. For sure. But Russia's nukes would hurt us too bad to engage in any type of warfare.

My apologies. Didn't mean to take it out on the Commander in Chief of the monkey army.;)
 
And my international affairs Prof. appears to be conservative, by the way. Although, they're all so paranoid about letting their political leaning show that it is hard to tell.
 
Kelzie said:
:lol: No problem. I just remember thinking the same as you literally a month ago. Like: where was the US getting off saying other countries can't have nukes.

My best choice would be that nobody has them. But my second best would be that only second strike capable countries would have them.

Oh dear...
 

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Oh dear...

What?!? That's not what I said. I said they shouldn't have first strike capability.
 
: Should the free world put together a military force to invade Iran?


If Bush wants to see his approval ratings drop down into the single digits, sure, then invade Iran.

We need diplomacy in this regard, not invasion...invading Iran would be absolutely the dumbest, stupidest thing our nation has ever done.

Why would Iran even want the bomb?

one 4-letter word...FEAR.

They see the U.S. attacking neighbors like Afghanistan and Iraq and know they could be next. Our foreign policy is literally forcing Iran to pursue the bomb. We armed Iraq in the past, expressly for keeping Iran in check. Why should they want to negoiate with the U.S.? The 'free world' doesn't need a united military force, it needs a united diplomatic force.

Besides, if Iran continues to pursue nuclear weapons, does anyone doubt that Israel will wage a pre-emptive attack on Iran's facilities...with or without U.S. approval?

Bush would have to be an idiot to get us embroiled in a mess with Iran now. If I could only hold my breath and keep my fingers crossed until Jan, 20th, 2009, when this spoiled little rich kid, who has failed at every facet of his life, is a fading memory in the minds of freedom loving Americans.
 
Hoot said:
: Should the free world put together a military force to invade Iran?


If Bush wants to see his approval ratings drop down into the single digits, sure, then invade Iran.

We need diplomacy in this regard, not invasion...invading Iran would be absolutely the dumbest, stupidest thing our nation has ever done.

Why would Iran even want the bomb?

one 4-letter word...FEAR.

They see the U.S. attacking neighbors like Afghanistan and Iraq and know they could be next. Our foreign policy is literally forcing Iran to pursue the bomb. We armed Iraq in the past, expressly for keeping Iran in check. Why should they want to negoiate with the U.S.? The 'free world' doesn't need a united military force, it needs a united diplomatic force.

Besides, if Iran continues to pursue nuclear weapons, does anyone doubt that Israel will wage a pre-emptive attack on Iran's facilities...with or without U.S. approval?

Bush would have to be an idiot to get us embroiled in a mess with Iran now. If I could only hold my breath and keep my fingers crossed until Jan, 20th, 2009, when this spoiled little rich kid, who has failed at every facet of his life, is a fading memory in the minds of freedom loving Americans.

Because diplomacy has a great chance of succeeding. Like a fart in a cat 5 hurricane.

Iran has already purchased Dual process technology. So other then the power what exactly is the enriched uranium for?

FEAR? how can you be so naive? It Will be used as another tool to oppress there own people and to threaten the west with.

I figure if you get your way we can get a liberal into office. Then iran and the other terrorist nations can go back to picking off our interest, allies and citizens with any fear of reprisal. Course they are well aware we might diplomacy them to death. Course thats going to take about 100,000 years. And they live for diplomacy, it gives them more time to plan another suicide attack
 
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