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Astralis Reply
"...sanctions are of limited value and air strikes simply solidify regime rule and will almost ensure that there's going to be a racheting up of iranian terrorist incidents."
You dismiss the effectiveness of such strikes in eliminating their primary objective- Iran's means to produce nukes. I guess that you think we've a low chance of eliminating or dramatically degrading their program? Were air-strikes successful, the continuation of a regime which we've tolerated otherwise for 28 years coupled with Iran's demonstrated behavior for terrorism is a very welcome exchange.
Further, you assume a greater ability on their part to punish us with terror should we be successful, or even attempt to eliminate their weapons. As an alternative to Iran acquiring nuclear weapons? I'll accept that exchange as well.
Nothing to date indicates that we'd lose anything by those exchanges. Has Iran already tried to close the straits? Are they already complicit in Iraq? The GCC? Hezbollah? Hamas? And now Afghanistan? What would change besides method?
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