[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by MRM

That's easy, Livi. Right now the Iranian people are controled by a brutal dictatorship and consistently poll as the most pro-American population in the entire mideast. If we don't bomb them, in five years they'll still be American-loving civilians suffering under a brutal dictator. In oter words, nothing will have changed. That's not progress.

We have to do something to help the people. The only tool we have available is mass bombing because we're bogged down, I mean busy rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan, and we don't have an invasion force to spare. So if we bomb the snot out of them, probably killing a bunch of them in the collateral damage, in five years they'll still be ruled by a brutal dictatorship, because the bombing alone can't change the regime without ground troops. But after the bombing the population would be unified in their supprt of the brutal dictatorship and would be willingly accepting the privations caused by their government as the sacrifice necessary to wreak revenge on the infidels.

Obviously it's a no-brainer. You bomb the snot out of them, act surprised when the survivors act peeved, and lecture the world on how you're bringing democracy to the middle east. Not doing anything is admitting defeat. Do you seriously think we're better of doing nothing than trying the only tool we have at our disposal? You're not one of those appeasers, are you? Say....Didn't Joe McCarthy have a file on your parents? Aren't you from one of those Yeropean countries? If you didn't do anything wrong why am I asking you so many questions? Your name ends with a vowel, too. Hmmmm, I think we're just going to have to mark you down as a subversive. What kind of a car do you drive? Bet it's an import. Figures.

Yes, we must invest in a mass bombing campaign. Trillions, if necessary. It's the price of "freedom's on the march" in the Middle East.