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**Relsenlilky** · 07-12-2011, 11:25 AM

Not when the costs massively outweigh the gains. We can eliminate the threat by not walking down this particular dark alley each night. That's cheaper and easier than becoming Batman.

There is precisely one policy at fault for putting American citizens at risk of harm, and that is the policy of having soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

To assert that there is a policy "at fault for putting American citizens at risk of harm" is not the same as asserting that there is a solution to the same involving nothing more than reversing the policy.
Iran will go against American interests whether or not you are in Iraq. It will do so violently if its leaders think violence will work, and it is the task of the United States' government to dissuade it from doing so to the extent possible. Each of the methods prescribed by the author aim to do exactly that.
If you don't think Iran is a threat and will be a threat in its future, how do you take account of the fact that its rallying cry is "Death to the Great Satan/America"? How do you take account of the fact that its regime is geared towards and supportive of a conflict with the United States, and that it is convinced that eventually it will emerge victorious in that conflict? By asserting that US interests won't be harmed after a pullout? Doesn't the US actually have other interests in the region? Won't those interests be harmed in the event of a stronger Iran?

07-12-2011, 11:25 AM	#29
Relsenlilky Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 465 Senior Member	Not when the costs massively outweigh the gains. We can eliminate the threat by not walking down this particular dark alley each night. That's cheaper and easier than becoming Batman. There is precisely one policy at fault for putting American citizens at risk of harm, and that is the policy of having soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. To assert that there is a policy "at fault for putting American citizens at risk of harm" is not the same as asserting that there is a solution to the same involving nothing more than reversing the policy. Iran will go against American interests whether or not you are in Iraq. It will do so violently if its leaders think violence will work, and it is the task of the United States' government to dissuade it from doing so to the extent possible. Each of the methods prescribed by the author aim to do exactly that. If you don't think Iran is a threat and will be a threat in its future, how do you take account of the fact that its rallying cry is "Death to the Great Satan/America"? How do you take account of the fact that its regime is geared towards and supportive of a conflict with the United States, and that it is convinced that eventually it will emerge victorious in that conflict? By asserting that US interests won't be harmed after a pullout? Doesn't the US actually have other interests in the region? Won't those interests be harmed in the event of a stronger Iran?
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