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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Alighieri who wrote (212428)11/30/2004 8:49:12 PM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (1) of 1573491
 
You underestimate the U.S.'s ability to project power. Iran is anything but safe if they continue to support the insurgency and continue on the path to a nuclear bomb. We can level Iran with our air power alone.

As far as North Korea, we don't have the option of engaging them in open warfare, because they already have the bomb. In addition, they have thousands of missiles pointed at Seoul and Japan, two faithful and good allies of the U.S. We wouldn't endanger them. They'd have to invoke our mutual defense treaties before we'd engage in war with N.K.

But Iran is a different story. We have two very good staging areas from which to launch an air war against Iran: Afghanistan and Iraq. They should be very cautious in their actions, if they know what is good for them.

And btw, what we proved in Iraq is that there was huge fraud and scandal associated with the U.N. oil for food program. We've exposed the U.N.'s complete lack of ability to enforce any anti-proliferation regime. In addition, we've destroyed a despot who openly funded Palestinian terrorism against Israel. I lament the fact that with a better leader we could have done a much better job of winning the peace in Iraq, but going to Iraq was never a mistake.
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