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Want to talk about it some more? Iran continues to do what it wants while using basic stall tactics commonly referred to as "Negotiations". These new missiles are just the first in a new lineup of bigger and badder missiles Iran has constructed, with even bigger longer range ones to be released in the coming months according to their regime.
Edmund Burk said, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." I think at this point talking is close to the equivalent of nothing.
This is a hard stance for me to draw. I lean libertarian, and non-interventionist ideals are strongly rooted in my mind. I prefer our intervention to be positive intervention, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked. War and force are something to be used only when absolutely required.
It is difficult because reading and understanding our complicated history in the Middle East helps me to understand some of the hate many have for us. The US has made plenty of missteps in it's past policies, and in many instances helped to create the problems we currently are dealing with.
That said, I am also a realist. I have read and understand the ideologies that drive Iran's regime. I am not afraid to call crazy, crazy, or evil, evil, and to identify religious extremism for what it is. Non-Interventionism is a great ideal, and it is harder to stick to in the post modern age of weapons that can take out entire civilizations from thousands of miles away. This is not a geo-political ideology that fuels Iran, it is a religious one. An inner belief window based on the idea that certain lives are more valuable than others, and that mass genocide is appropriate even at the cost of ones own destruction.
It's time the US listens to the leaders of Israel and take a strong stand against Iran's missile and nuclear programs. Time is running out and once they have the bomb, it will be everlastingly too late.
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