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Originally Posted by zraver
I dissagree with Swifty that appeasement is the cure.
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Manipulating the Iranians into doing what is in the interests of the United States is not appeasement, it is good strategy.
You may have been indoctrinated to believe that anything that is not blood and iron amounts to appeasement but that is not a logical or rational position.
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Iran's rhetoric and actiosn argues that it is a dangerous unstable state that must be nutured now, not later.
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That was the same argument we got to justify the war in Iraq.
What have we learned from the war in Iraq? The same knife that is used to neuter can be the agency of self emasculation in the same stroke.
Furthermore, the Wisdom of the Ages has admonitions regarding the knife as the best solution to knotty problems.
Regards,
William