Which of the following points do you disagree with?

• Iran has/had a strong desire to obtain a nuclear weapon, and to use it, if acquired.

• Iran’s nuclear enrichment capability was destroyed last year, at least for the near future.

• The material Iran had already enriched may not have been destroyed, or it's buried.

• Iran will never stop trying to acquire nuclear weapons under the pre-war regime. Or under a like-minded regime.

• Iran had been rapidly building up its conventional weapons arsenal to protect their ability to enrich uranium and create nuclear weapons

• Iran, at some point soon, would have had a large enough arsenal of conventional weapons to prevent anyone from stopping them from rebuilding their nuclear enrichment capabilities.

• Israel was going to bomb Iran with or without us.

• If we didn’t participate, our bases in the ME would have been hit, and therefore, we’d still be heavily involved.

• Iran does not need the ability to strike the US mainland with any weapon to cause great harm to the US.


I believe them all. Personally, the one about Israels desire to bomb Iran with or without the U.S. involvement give me some pause. But I am willing to believe it because it makes sense to me. I am not certain if there's more we could have done to prevent that, if it's true. And even if we could have prevented them from doing it, would it have mattered in the end? This war was seemingly going to happen one way or another. The only question is when?

If you agree with all of these, then there's no other option but to support the military action we are taking. That said, playing armchair QB when it's all said and done is also fair. And I suspect that just about all of us will be proven right on many things, and wrong on others.