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Arneoker

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16. Of course we shouldn't trust the Iranians, and we should try to keep the bomb away from them
Mon Nov 25, 2013, 07:37 PM
Nov 2013

But that doesn't mean this deal is bad. They are never going to give up their nuclear program. (At least not until Israel gives up THEIR nukes. Not that the Israelis don't have their own legitimate interests and rational worries.) But they aren't necessarily going for the bomb, and maybe we can keep them from getting it with the right incentives. However, if we attack them, no way they aren't getting it, even if we delay them.

Bottom line, if my now almost ten-year old son ever decides to join the military, I don't want him pulling occupation duty in Teheran in 10 years, worrying that my Iranian neighbor's relatives might kill him. (And my Iranian neighbors hate the ruling mullahs, but all Iranians love their country, just like we love ours.)

This deal deserves a chance, and to hell with Lindsey Graham and Charles Krauthammer and the rest of their ilk!

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