Monday, March 2, 2009

Bomb Iran?

We all know that terrorism has been at high risk the past few years post the 9/11 attacks but there is a huge difference between paranoid and plain stupid. I do not completely agree with either side but I do agree with some main points of Edward Luttwak in saying not to bomb Iran yet. Mario Loyola makes his main point around getting rid of potential danger to keep ourselves safe and that Iran is moving fast and will become more assertive and aggressive as time goes on. He gives no proof there is intention for Iran to harm us and he wants the U.S. to bomb another country based on suspicion, look where that got us last time.
Luttwak definitely has the better argument in this issue mostly because he goes into great depth on his side as to why we should wait to bomb Iran. He makes a good point when talking about how Iran cannot even drill their own oil which leads us to think what they can really even be capable of. Luttwak isn’t completely against the bombing, but he does believe we should wait and see what happens before we go and step our big foot in the door again. “For the long-term consequences of any American military action cannot be disregarded. Iranians are our once and future allies.” This passage makes reference to another reason we will be hated as a country if we were to go and bomb another country in the Middle East as if we weren’t in deep enough. I believe we should lay low for a while and if the time comes where we absolutely have to take military action there is no doubt in my mind we will which may or may not be the best but only time will reveal what lies ahead.

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