Then You have Iran who is most likely trying to build a nuclear arsenal.But all the countries trying to prevent it from doing so, are armed to the teeth with nukes.
Iran wants the bomb so they are on par with Israel. And it's only a matter of time till they do have a nuclear capability. If they keep getting poked at for trying to have the same military capability.This will turn into a shit storm.
The countries trying to prevent Iran from becoming nuclear aren't run by power-hungry madmen that rig elections so that they stay that way. To believe that the leader of Iran is after nukes for any reason whatsoever
other than to threaten Israel and the US is folly. It's not to be on a level playing field with Israel, it's to overwhelm the Israelis. Iran knows full well that if they ever tried to threaten Israel with a conventional war, they'd get their asses handed to them on a platter; all without Israel ever going nuclear.
The Israelis haven't threatened Iran. The Israelis haven't said Iran needs to be, "wiped off the map".
When Iran goes nuclear, we'll have a state in the Middle East, run by a mad man, with his finger on the button. Similar to what we have in North Korea right now. The difference is that with Korea, we have the Chinese sitting on them. No one's keeping watch over Iran.
That kinda leaves us. Unless we want to see countries get obliterated by nukes in the future... or worse: terrorists getting their hands on enriched materials. I have to say, the latter scares the
shit out of me.
To turn this back towards the US politics: as I stated earlier regarding Libertarians - as long as they keep producing fruit loops for their presidential candidates (Paul isn't the first, he's just the latest in a long line...) then they're going to forever stay in the back seat. That Paul couldn't and doesn't see Iran as a threat to... well... everyone... is one of his many short-sighted failures.
