On Jan 30, 8:14 pm, kT wrote:
And since there actually weren't any weapons of mass destruction in
Iraq,

Our knowledge about the assets and intentions of hostile nations is
not perfect, so there is always a margin for error.

Since an error that would allow al-Qaeda to get its hands on an atomic
bomb would have catastrophic consequences, we have to ensure that any
errors that are made are on the safe side. Which is something the
Iranian leadership doesn't seem to understand - that, now, we have to
be 100% *certain* that Iran isn't building an atomic bomb, and
indications that a nuclear power program including reprocessing
capabilities is simply for energy production are not sufficient for
that purpose - only total cooperation with an inspection regime that
leaves no room whatsoever for diversion is sufficient.

Iran's leadership has already declared itself to be dangerously
irresponsible, willing to openly speak of hostile actions against
America's fellow liberal democracy, Israel. An atomic attack on Israel
is unthinkable, and will not be allowed to happen - any more than one
against the United States, or Luxembourg, or Italy, or Belgium, or
Taiwan, or Australia.

We wish to go on living our lives in peace and safety - ourselves, and
all the other people living in peace in democratic nations. Dictators
are not to be allowed the least opportunity to menace people living
under democracy. We had to put up with nonsense back during the Cold
War - thus, in 1983, the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands
didn't immediately result in Argentina being devastated from one end
to the other.

We don't have to put up with this kind of nonsense any longer - and we
certainly won't from enemies who have shown us that their level of
brutality is sickening.

For example, back before Israel abandoned the settlements in the Gaza
Strip, those wonderful freedom fighters over there distinguished
themselves by... videotaping their handwork as they murdered a
pregnant woman, after first killing her daughters, one by one, before
her eyes.

Astoundingly, this did not make front page headlines across North
America and Europe. Possibly the terrorists are intimidating the news
media.

As long as other people are prepared to leave us in peace, we have no
plans to attack or invade anyone. Real fascists are aggressors, trying
to rob and enslave others just because they're foreigners. All we want
is to be left in peace, but that didn't happen; instead, aggression
was commited against us. That is the height of folly, as Imperial
Japan once learned to its cost.

John Savard