ki11ercane wrote:Iran needed to be reduced to glass 40 years ago. Now, it's too late.
40 years ago? 1970?
How about instead of reducing Iran to a sheet of glass, how about not having done this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tatThe 1953 Iranian coup d’état (termed the 28 Mordad coup d'état in Iran), was the overthrow of the democratically-elected Iranian government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh by the Central Intelligence Agency;[1][2][3] it was the CIA's first covert operation against a foreign government.[4] The coup has been called "a critical event in post-war world history", and is thought to have influenced "all of subsequent Iranian history."[5] The coup was originally considered in America to be a triumph of Cold War covert action, but given its blowback, it is considered now generally to have left "a haunting and terrible legacy," both in Iran and worldwide.[6] In 2000, the U.S. Secretary of State called the coup a "setback for democratic government" in Iran, saying "It is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs."[7] In 2009, President Barack Obama publicaly admitted US involvement in the coup; the first time a sitting US president had done so.
That wasn't to imply they "had to be." Too late to fix the "Iran problem" now. It's become anti-climatic. Iran is never going to be invaded, ever. Israel is not going to do it. The West isn't going to do it. Iran is not going to stop making nukes no matter what they need them for. And good on them for doing it if the purpose of self defense is their ultimate goal. An armed society is a polite one. If you check your history books, no nuclear power has ever been directly invaded by another. Iran has gotten fed up with the rhetoric. What did the West think Iran was going to do after a 1/2 a century of sabre rattling? Take it up the keester? Sounds like "Liberal thinking" to me. Americans wouldn't stand this kind of behavior against them for a second. What makes the rest of the world any different?
They can make their own gasoline, pump their own oil, and eventually when pushed enough, will tell the rest of the world to ***k off when it comes to producing all the things they need to be an independent nation.
Everytime I see a new "Iran is on the verge of being invaded" thread, I laugh. All those news headlines are good for are my energy portfolio.