Save us all the trouble of being in another war!


Just kidding but it may be the best way to stop all of this BS!

I don't quite understand why there is so much flak about Iran having nuclear power when so many other countries have it. Why are they being singled out that way? Not that I think they SHOULD have it one way or the other.

Because they're a "rogue" state if you ask Clinton's administration or part of "the axis of evil" according to the Bush administration. What does that mean?
It's not so much even that they're non-democratic or what their history is or any of that- those are just the things people toss on the fire.
The most dangerous thing about Iran, pre-invasion Iraq, North Korea, Syria, and sometimes Libya, is more correctly described by the "rogue" analogy because they are outside of the loop. They have little stake in the international community and the leaders don't seem to want a stake in the international world. The leaders rule on charismatic leadership rather than a sustainable bureaucracy (though Iran has an underlying democracy), so the well-being of the people is more a tool of the regimes than a goal. All these things set up these countries to be more dangerous. Like nothing-left-to-lose kind of dangerous.
Of course a lot of countries in Latin America and subsaharan Africa meet this description. But we don't seem to care about them because they aren
t acquiring WMDs.

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Outside of providing gobs of oil to it, of course. The major issue we have in dealing with Iran is the Straight of Hormuz. They can shut it down pretty easily and getting it opened back up will be very hard. The entrance is so small.

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