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Originally Posted by gunnut
What if Iran is not a threat?
You know, I bet, in the 1990s, someone asked a question in the counter-terrorism circle "what if Al Queda is a threat?"
Someone was probably quick to dismiss him and said something to the effect of "what if Al Queda is not a threat?"
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I agree with you ... it is also quite possible that in the 80s in the Tehran underworld, the ruling elite were also asking the question "Are israel and the united states threat to our national security".
Some said nay, some said yay, ... the yay went for the nukes while the nay were ridiculed as appeasers and westerners ...
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If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery of gunpowder with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the arts of peace, a philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh or weep at the folly of mankind. - Edward Gibbon
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