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Originally Posted by lwarmonger
From what I've read, a significant number of Iranian citizens consider nuclear capability as a right and an issue of national sovereignty... that is a problem, because it means that nuclear power/weapons would be a hot issue in any elected government that was set up.
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They can think whatever the hell they'd like, but if we simply won't allow it - and I and Podhoretz and
dalem all agree that we should NEVER allow it - then it's simply going to remain an unrealized wish.
I agree that it DOES represent a problem in the abstract, as in, whatever they're determined to do and we're determined to prevent will remain a point of conflict. But this is really the bottom line: it comes down to WILL. If we are determined enough to prevent it - and we certainly SHOULD be - then we have the means to do so, and they do NOT have the means to assert their own will.
And that's independent of whether we have set up a puppet government or destroyed huge numbers of Iranians. We can deny them nukes for as long as we maintain the will to do so.
And we SHOULD.