During my stay in Iran (2019), I noticed that the society felt culturally much closer to the Western world than many Arabic countries I went. In Tehran, I also asked many people what they thought of Israel. I received very thoughtful responses. Most people denied sense of conflict with Israel, a country with which Iran didn't even border, suggesting that both governments needed this conflict as distraction from their own indolence and incompetence.
Several CNN and MSNOW news anchors call it a war of choice and say there’s no “imminent” threat from Iran. Mr. O’Toole also sees a comparison to the unfounded fear of Iraq’s “weapons of mass destruction.” I beg to differ. Iran has been calling the USA the “great Satan” and thousands in their rallies consistently chant “death to America.” Despite limited oversight pursuant to the JCPOA, intelligence reports indicate Iran was perilously close to producing nuclear ICBMs. Their history of terrorism features a list of greatest including Hezbollah, Hamas and Houthi’s. As Netanyahu analogized today, the shortsighted appeasement policy of Europe toward Nazi aggression emboldened Hitler to conquer one nation after another [and murder six million Jews]. Should America pretend it can’t happen here, that Muslim fundamentalist martyrs would never dare to bring their jihad here, machine gunning church congregations, crashing planes into the World Trade Center, or nuking New York? Isn’t one Kim Jong Un enough? While I didn’t vote for Trump and he often upsets me, I believe he made the right call in bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities, that it wasn’t solely to save Israel, as if that wasn’t sufficient justification, but also to save us.
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During my stay in Iran (2019), I noticed that the society felt culturally much closer to the Western world than many Arabic countries I went. In Tehran, I also asked many people what they thought of Israel. I received very thoughtful responses. Most people denied sense of conflict with Israel, a country with which Iran didn't even border, suggesting that both governments needed this conflict as distraction from their own indolence and incompetence.
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Several CNN and MSNOW news anchors call it a war of choice and say there’s no “imminent” threat from Iran. Mr. O’Toole also sees a comparison to the unfounded fear of Iraq’s “weapons of mass destruction.” I beg to differ. Iran has been calling the USA the “great Satan” and thousands in their rallies consistently chant “death to America.” Despite limited oversight pursuant to the JCPOA, intelligence reports indicate Iran was perilously close to producing nuclear ICBMs. Their history of terrorism features a list of greatest including Hezbollah, Hamas and Houthi’s. As Netanyahu analogized today, the shortsighted appeasement policy of Europe toward Nazi aggression emboldened Hitler to conquer one nation after another [and murder six million Jews]. Should America pretend it can’t happen here, that Muslim fundamentalist martyrs would never dare to bring their jihad here, machine gunning church congregations, crashing planes into the World Trade Center, or nuking New York? Isn’t one Kim Jong Un enough? While I didn’t vote for Trump and he often upsets me, I believe he made the right call in bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities, that it wasn’t solely to save Israel, as if that wasn’t sufficient justification, but also to save us.