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Originally posted by Spanky
1) Iran will never control the middle east because they are Shiite and the rest of the Middle east is Sunni (except for sixty percent of Iraq and a few scattered pockets in Lebanon, Pakistan and other places). Most of the region would not tolerate these "heretics in charge". Most of the oil is in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and those countrys will never let Shiite Iran control them.
2) If we didn't nuke to save South Vietnam, South Korea etc, I don't see why we would nuke to save Israel.
3)I don't see how nuking anyone is going to help us hold onto our oil supply.
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1. Once Iran has nukes, and they take out Israel, who stands up to them? The Saudis? Us? They launch a ground and missile war to take the Gulf States. They have 60% of Iraq behind them. I think we are in trouble.
2. Uhm, I think its a different equation. Niether North Korea/China nor N. Vietnam were talking about wiping a race of people off the map. Those were cold war proxy battles within a country. Wiping Israel off the map is different and has an heightened context in light of the previous attemtp to wipe out the Jews.
3. Why not just massive targeted bombing then?
