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I was simply responding to someone who was praising Trump, or at least the United States for negotiating rather than dictating even though Trump is always accused of being a dictator.
No I don't mean that. I mean that negotiation is his only option. He thought he could win this idiocy by throwing his weight around, backed up by the pseudo macho posturing of his ridiculous Sec of Defence. Lob a few missiles about, tell the Iranian people that they should rise up and it was all going to be raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens.
If you are lucky then you might eventually get close to what you started with before Trump ripped up the agreement with Iran and this clown show hit the road.
On the contrary, the option to take out their ports and energy infrastructure still exists. The Iranians realize that after everything they've already been hit with, which is why the Iranians are....(wait for it!)....negotiating.
Unless you think those boats laying mines and shooting at our ships are remote-controlled.
Maybe you're unfamiliar with the concept of 'winning'. It means that you end up with what you wanted to achieve. That you have more than you started with. That you got what you wanted.
You forgot the part where Iran (the #1 sponsor of terrorism around the world) will no longer be possessing a nuclear weapon.
Best to wait until they do, right? Just like waiting for the robber to pull the trigger on the gun he's pointing at you before taking any action. Good thing Trump realizes we needed to be proactive.
Excuse me having to shout, but this point is obviously not getting through to a lot of people:
They'd be 10 years further away if Trump hadn't ripped up the JCPOA.
Are you trying to say that Trump caused Iran to start enriching uranium to build a nuke? Trump must wield quite a bit of power to be able to make that happen. That's the kind of president we should always have.
Or Iran could have stopped being the world's #1 sponsor of terrorism, and maybe it wouldn't have mattered so much if they became the proud owner of a brand new nuke.
Then it looks like we're both reaching the conclusion that Iran can't be trusted. They're a violent group and will fund terrorism and cause as much death and destruction as they can, which explains why they so desperately want a nuke. And here I've been wasting time listening to people tell me that Iran never posed a threat to the United States.
What? Is that a serious question or an at attempt at humour? I may have to shout out loud again.
You can shout all you want, but I didn't say they were building a nuke, which means everything you said after what you put in ALL CAPS was irrelevant.
But they were building one before Obama's 2016 deal. They had enough of an uranium stockpile to create 8 to ten nuclear bombs. Obama did a deal whereby they'd reduce their stockpile of uranium by 98% and keep further enrichment to below 4% (sufficient for nuclear energy plants). They were complying. Until Trump tore up the agreement and they restarted the process of developing nuclear weapons.
