re: Should Iran be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon?

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They’re literally surrounded by nuclear armed countries. India and Pakistan both have them. JFK unsuccessfully tried to stop Israel from getting them. Why would Iran not want nuclear weapons?

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If, after three months of Iran targeting civilian sites and firing on ships in neutral countries, you still can’t answer the question, then you’re not lacking information—you’re lacking intellectual honesty.

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The old military adage was no one would use a nuclear weapon because of mutually assured destruction. That assumes you have rational actors. In Iran's case, they're not rational.

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Right here ^^^^^^y'all.

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The USA is the number one sponser of terrorism and its not close.

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You’re free to move to any of these other shite holes if it’s so bad here and you hate it

Also, don’t you have to ask yourself that question if you are going to respond to the OP?

Edit - It’s not going to be necessary, only if Options A, B, C. Don’t work. So possibly as option D. Or you would quit the war.

Chucky, it is not a foregone conclusion that we would respond to a nuclear first strike with an overwhelming response. If North Korea or Iran were to nuke New York or LA, I’m not convinced we would even respond with a nuclear retaliatory strike.

At best, there would be a proportional retaliation which in my opinion would not be enough.

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Chucky, it is not a foregone conclusion that we would respond to a nuclear first strike with an overwhelming response. If North Korea or Iran were to nuke New York or LA, I’m not convinced we would even respond with a nuclear retaliatory strike.

At best, there would be a proportional retaliation which in my opinion would not be enough.

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Just so we're clear, you don't believe that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth would respond to an Iranian nuclear attack on New York City with a retaliatory strike?

If that's what you believe, then I can understand why you think that a nuclear armed Iran is an existential threat to the USA.

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Why are we dictating national defense issues to a sovereign foreign country? The national defense of this country isn’t beholden to any foreign power, why should theirs be?

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Bear with me for a minute.

The middle to upper class liberal in America thinks that all the lower class needs are more opportunities. Give them more opportunities, opportunities for education, for jobs, for a better life, and they will take those opportunities.

This is a fantasy for the vast majority of those in the lower class, but the "privileged" if you will, liberal can't see that. Because he assumes that individuals in the lower class think like he does.

He would take better opportunities, be grateful for them and make the most of them, so he assumes that everyone would.

He can't understand that his viewpoint is vastly different from people with a vastly different background from him, and a vastly different viewpoint motivates vastly different actions.

That may sound like it's not related to your questions, but it is.

Many nations around the world cannot be trusted. Your viewpoint is colored by the fact that you live in a country in which civil rights are respected and authority may be questioned—that is evident in the very questions you just asked. This is simply not true of much—if not most—of the world.

That portion of the world doesn't respond to anything but force or the threat of force.

Kim stocks are through the roof. Rocket man knew what had to be done.

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How many countries have NK and Pakistan nuked?

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Which rival countries have NK and Pakistan issued sacred fundamentalist vows to wipe off the face of the Earth?