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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Though their interests in Iraq certainly aren't aligned with ours, they're closer than you suggest. If we want a stable democracy to emerge, that means a Shi'ite dominated government.
Talking to them doesn't do anything of the sort until we agree to do something, which we don't do unless it's better than the alternatives. Refusing to talk to them encourages them to build the bomb, which they want -- at least in part -- to deter us from attacking them, a strategy that makes a fair amount of sense from an Iranian perspective.
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We can talk all we want, and it'll be worth little more than that. If they get close to a bomb, Israel is taking it out. It's just that simple. The Iranian "nuclear threat" is illusory. See "Iraq Nuclear Threat of 1986."
