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solid_fuel a day ago | parent | next [-]

> A totalitarian theocratic regime with long range ballistic missiles and nukes.

Man, imagine that, how scary. I bet in theocratic regimes there's a bunch of stupid stuff going on, like a ~Secretary~ Minister of ~War~ Defense that justifies an attack on a foreign nation by calling it a holy war and prays every time he gives a speech to the troops.

Those theocrats probably do things like de-funding every science project they can when they get power. Or worse, maybe they think vaccines are against god's will and get a bunch of kids sick by opposing vaccines for preventable diseases. Hell they probably don't even teach their kids about evolution or gay people.

Can you imagine if a nation like that had nuclear weapons and long range missiles? Why, they might start a war for no reason.

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archagon a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

47 years? What a convenient sounding number. Wonder where you got it from.

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jghn a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I honestly thought you were talking about the US in your first paragraph.

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JPKab a day ago | parent [-]

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	▲	jghn 15 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I did assume you were being hyperbolic when writing it, but yes. I would think that anyone looking at the state of the US right now may see "A totalitarian theocratic regime with long range ballistic missiles and nukes" as referring to it. Totalitarian: hyperbolic, but the state of the executive branch over the last couple of decades is moving things in that direction. And clearly one could say this to make a point. Theocratic: A slight stretch, but mostly yes. Long range ballistic missiles: check Nukes: check
	▲	awnird a day ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Israel has killed more civilians than Russia and Iran combined. I don’t think your concern for civilian casualties is genuine.
	▲	keybored 14 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The kind of whacky religiousness that you find in the US matters because of foreign policy, among other things. (There are also domestic things like right to abortion.) The US ambassador to Israel is a Zionist that talks about the Bible with Tucker Carlson as if should have any policy weight, because he believes so. There are other (Republican) politicians that say something like the US having a Biblical responsibility to support Israel. > The narcissism of small differences on full display here. And what is your pose, here? The selfishness of implicitly dismissing the foreign policy implications of American religious n*jobs because you don’t live in the affected countries?

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bdangubic a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

was this copy/pasted from a post from 30 years ago or was it typed up from scratch?

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mrbombastic a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You certainly built a large strawman out of one sentence.

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awnird a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Hey, you forgot “they hate us for our freedoms” in your propaganda spiel.

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cogman10 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah it's a good thing we dismantled that regime and totally didn't empower the most extreme and radical portion of it while removing the politicians who'd tempered that and turned the population against the US and Israel.

But hey, at least we've lifted sanctions and we are now sending them even more money because the oil market was completely destroyed so that's great right?

Obviously this is the best strategy because we can see how the Taliban was completely dismantled in Afghanistan after 20 years of occupation right?

Unless you are proposing genocide of Iran or an eternal occupation, what we've done is kicked a hornets nest.

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TacticalCoder a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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	▲	rixed a day ago \| parent [-]
		I wish we could throw in a giant arena every person believing in "inherent evil", be it "of islamism" or "of zionism" or "of America", give them knives and books, and let them fight until they figure t out.

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lyu07282 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I agree THAT ethno nationalist country in the middle east, with long-range ballistic missiles, secret nukes and a secret nuclear doctrine that hasn't signed any Non-Proliferation treaty should make everybody worried. But that country isn't Iran.

It's the only country in the world with nuclear weapons that at this moment gets bombarded by missiles right now, if that doesn't make you worried you aren't paying attention.