Nice Precedent, Mr. President
Yesterday, Iran's defense minister, Vice Adm. Ali Shamkhani, has warned that Iran may resort to pre-emptive strikes to prevent an attack on its nuclear facilities. He said. "Some military commanders in Iran are convinced that preventive operations which the Americans talk about are not their monopoly. Any nation, if it feels threatened, can resort to that."
There are so many things utterly disturbing about this.
1) Any country can now feel justified in attacking another as long as they have the same evidence that the US had, which is none.
2) Saddam Hussein said he didn’t have nuclear weapons and in fact didn’t, however, we invaded. Iran admits they are working on nuclear weapons, but we haven’t done anything. Weren’t they our allies a few months ago? Eurasia, Eastasia? Whatever.
3) Will Israel let Iran complete building a nuclear weapon? They have sent bombers in a few times to other countries over the last 20 years to destroy nuclear facilities