Why?

Applying our greatest principles internationally, and extending them to even our presumed enemies.

So you're saying you support installing democracy in the Middle East. Gotcha.

Not quite. Democracy most definatly isnt it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXa8byZiyaw

Was alluding to extrending that to others that which was granted to us; for instance The Second Amendment.
If these principles hold any sacred signifigance, they should be shared.

We are not a democracy... a democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.

This post was edited by Lizar50 on Mar 9 2012 11:55pm

Netanyahu is a war criminal and should be tried as such.

AIPAC controls US foreign policy

the end

Cool, none of us have heard that before.

/s



What war crimes has he committed?

NN half-assed conspiracy theories

This. So is case with other countries, like Pakistan, far more dangerous than Iran if you ask me.
Not to mention dangerous regimes like the USA addicted to war every few years to stimulate economy.



Very true. Although it is arguable what a defense consists of. It is a waist and very dangerous to get into a complicated M.A.D. grid between many nations.
Global binding nuclear disarmament is the way to go.



Not Natanyahu nor any serious Israeli or American ME policy maker really believes the ayatollah are crazy. This is hogwash fed to the masses to scare them.



Hopefully that something will be a peaceful multilateral nuclear disarmament initiative through intensive diplomatic operations. This can be achieved if USA spends less than quarter of what it does on wars.

Why would you have any reason to believe Iran would be willing to negotiate on terms America/Israel could agree on?

This post was edited by IceMage on Mar 10 2012 03:59am

I didn't mean specifically Iran. I meant for nuclear proliferation in general, since you mentioned the valid point of a ME nuclear arms race. Iran getting a nuke will make other big ME countries want one like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey.
This pattern also applies on larger scale between USA, Russia, China.
The drive of a country to have a nuclear weapon depends on what other countries have, it is not an independent variable.
So to reduce global drive for nuclear proliferation, there should be global nuclear disarmament treaties in which America and other world powers will have to compromise on their own arsenal.
Till that happens, USA or another world power will be playing whack the mole... today Iran, tomorrow someone else, and in the long run nuclear weapons will proliferate anyway.