Originally Posted by
Salty_Aus
Seriously, who can blame a country like Iran from wanting nukes?
If they have nukes everyone will leave them alone.
I find this entire nuclear weapon debate to be totally hypocritical and extremely biased.
If you want other countries to not have nuclear weapons, give up your own nuclear weapons first... or you're a huge hypocrite.
It's such an obvious double standard. *shrugs*
I think the issue is less a "country like Iran" and more a regime like the one that currently controls Iran. The current regime is extremely unpopular, both within and without, and it seems to be well justified. It is crazy. A lot of Persians live in Los Angeles and I have spoken with a lot of them on this topic, especially when I was playing live poker. Never heard a single person that had anything good to say about their government. This is obviously a biased sample, as these are the people who chose to leave, and many of them were surrogates of the Shah. But the point still stands. I think the current regime sees becoming a nuclear powerhouse as a necessity towards its survival. Also, you could probably say a lot of the things about Netanyahu. If it wasn't for the current conflicts good chance he would be on his way to jail right now.
Also,
I find this entire
right of return debate to be totally hypocritical and extremely biased.
If you want other countries to
give land back to displaced populations, give up your
high value land back to the people you displaced first... or you're a huge hypocrite.
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