Iran fires on drone - 2 views
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Cameron G on 12 Nov 12This to came up a lot in my debate this Saturday and i think it is an overall summary of the situation in Iran which needs to be dealt with. What are your views on Iran and how should we being dealing with them. Are they a legit threat?
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John West on 12 Nov 12In some ways, I think of this failed attack on our drone as a sort of metaphor for why Iran is a bizzare threat: they saw our drone in international waters, fired on it, and missed. The article doesn't really hammer home how silly this is: a drone isn't moving that quickly and can't really evade, yet they failed to take it down. In general, it seems like there is a large discrepancy between their threats and their actual capability. I don't know a huge amount about Iran, but firing on our military assets in international waters (if that's where it was) isn't really excusable. That being said, what do you think we should do? I personally don't see them as serious enough of a threat to consider something like invasion. You would really have to sell the military option to me. I think I speak for a lot of people when I saw that I'm really wary about the idea of military action there. I'm genuinely interested to hear another perspective on this.
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Eli Melrod on 14 Nov 12I think the "Iran issue," or whatever you want to call it, is way overdramatized. We're not going to go to war with Iran. Our sanctions are destroying the value of their currency. There is nothing more we can do to "deal with" them. And no, I'd say they are not a legit threat. While it is debated, it seems to me like they aren't close to getting a nuclear bomb at all. They are closer to having the materials to construct one, but they don't have the technology or the actual warhead to put that material into.
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Jonah Schacter on 15 Nov 12I agree with John that Iran is a bizzarre threat. If Iran wanted to hit that drone they probably could have. Maybe they were trying to send a message, but I do not really think it came across. I also agree with Eli that this is way overdramatize. People are just always nervous about things that could happen, as soon as anyone hears nuke they freak out even if there is none.