Nuclear bombs are like putting giant beware of dog signs on the country

They are meant to be a deterrent.

plus we've suspected for 30 years the Israelis have nukes

Iran only seeks nukes for sovereignty and the power to ensure they don't get fucked in trade wars.

And I’d argue that it works.

for the record I don;t think the deal was all fox news made it out to be but it wasn;t a magic bullet ether

Kept the US and Soviets from engaging directly in war.

I think it’s an entirely overrated issue.

agreed

Even though I think foreign policy is the hardest topic

Lol

Ok. Bedtime

it was a medoiore deal from a presidency who's foreign policy was pretty mediocre too

not awful, not great

Tulsi for national security advisor after DNC cheats her out of her candidacy

why

she'll just get overruled by the "but daddy" wing of the Trump presidency on every important decision

even if Israel has nukes they wouldn't use them they have so much support from people they would lose a lot if they did

idk

I think most of the same people who hate Israel would wake up still hating Israel and most of the people who defend Israel would wake up and figure a way to defend Israel

yes but at least one side would be wrong at that point

or more clearly wrong I guess

Nuking a country that was gonna nuke you doesn't seem like it's gonna lose anyone you already had in your camp

mmmm

you'd have to prove they were going to nuke you

idk

prove to who?

the UN?

the body that spends equal time condemning israel and the rest of the world?

public opinion I guess

no I think reasonable suspision is all they;d need to satasfy their allies

I'm not saying that's good but by and large with Israel the enemy and ally camps are already so firmly entrenched I doubt them nuking Iran makes much of a difference

Just keep in mind: Iran's been in a state of war with the US since 1979

should have turned the place into a glass carpark years ago

Making the case that Iran was going to nuke them first gets pretty easy when you look at all the rhetoric from Iran about wiping Israel off the map.

This may just be me

but when I was going through basic, one of the first things you get told is

if the guy looking to kill you repetitively says he's gonna kill you, it's better if you believe him

the best middle east foreign policy is to say "do whatever the fuck you want to each other, we don't care, unless you screw with us in which case we will wipe you off the face of the earth"

but alas that hasn't been true of us foreign policy since the 1800s

She would probably get overruled less than Bolton did. Time for Trump to live up to his anti war retoric