The insanity of today's Republican Party

[A Black Falcon]

Iran is definitely dangerous. They're not Hitler, but they're dangerous. Are they making nukes? Maybe. Likely, really. They might not... but seriously, what they've been doing for years now has been so obstructionist, so pushing the line, so standoffish towards the international community... the Iranian people are not the problem, they're actually less anti-American than most Arab populations are actually (note - the fact that they're Persian and not Arab, while the focus of popular anti-Americanism in the region is among Arabs, is definitely a big part of why; it's too bad that as far as governments go things are very different, but look at American involvement in Iran before the Iranian Revolution and we were kind of asking for it... but anyway.). The government is the problem, and the thing is, they're a big problem, and have a lot of power, including total control of the army.

Iran is mostly a direct threat to Israel, not the US itself, but as Israel is our close ally, that's not such a big comfort...

We can't invade them though, for sure, so the whole thing is an incredibly difficult situation. We definitely need to use sanctions, as we have, and press other countries to support them too, as we have, but maybe we need to do more... sanctions are important, though. For instance, I supported the sanctions on Sadaam's Iraq. They were effective and worked at keeping him from being able to build or rebuild nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons capabilities. I support sanctions. The problem came when we went beyond that and invaded for no reason other than those I described...