gorge
10d ago
If the US is the world's cop, Iran is not some innocent brown kid who got shot for no reason, they're the habitual bad actor with dozens of prior complaints and arrests.
What's the worst three things they have done in the past 15 years? I don't follow the region closely. But it generally seems to me that the Iranian regime has moderated with its age and is just a normal country. A country with a lousy government that does not like the U.S., sure, but that's not a reason to start a war. Iran isn't some kind of irrational chaotic evil as some neocons claim. As I have heard, Iran actually cooperated with the U.S. in fighting ISIS. And when the U.S. or Israel has occasionally bombed Iran, Iran has mostly responded by politely alerting us prior to targetting and hit only empty buildings. Up until this attack, they did not close the straits of Hormuz, blow up crucial oil facilities, bomb Israeli civilians, etc. etc. What makes Iran so much of a rogue nation, worse than, say, Pakistan or Israel?
What if actually trying to bomb Iran into the pre-industrial age would result in Iran retaliating by destroying every oil refinery, oil field, and desalinization plant within 1,500 miles? Still worth it?
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