Originally Posted by Guest

The communists were professed atheists and secularists, which means they believed life on this earth is all they get. This is significant because, no matter how belligerent they were, they did NOT have a death wish. Hence, when the “correlation of forces” per Marxist dogma finally went against them, they behaved accordingly. This was the genius of Reagan and why we won the Cold War, although most liberals will go to their grave denying that. Reagan’s versions of negotiation, I might also add, was based on “trust but verify” whereas Obama’s seems to be “trust is good enough” especially given that Iran has given us the finger on inspecting their military sites.

By contrast to the Soviet Union, the Iranian leadership is a theocracy (ie something liberals are supposed to be concerned about) that is clearly a Radical Islamist regime. Even you will not deny that. Their brand of Islamic fanaticism has the 12th Imam millenarian twist to it which gets into pretty scary apocalyptic scenarios, especially when nukes are added into the equation. You also don’t understand the difference between the Saudi Sunni based monarchy and Iranian Shia based theocracy which is why you make a false comparison. (the Saudis are the home of Wahhabism true, but since 1945 when FDR met with King Saud, we’ve been able to work with them for the most part, their crazy factions notwithstanding.) The point remains … we cannot reasonably negotiate with Iran. To advocate that path is essentially a mixture of cowardice and, in my opinion, also includes some type of subliminal liberal self hatred factor which has always concerned me.

I also have to note … your comments and mocking tone are more evidence, yet again, of moral equivalence. Most liberals seem to genuinely distrust and dislike their own country, and ascribe it to be in effect no better that our enemies. I’m guessing one of the many reasons you think America is so incorrigibly rotten is that we don’t yet have universal gender neutral bathrooms?

Bottom line: if we allow Iran to get nukes, they WILL use them at some point against homeland USA. Think about it.