Double standard
Well if we're talking moral absolutes (which you love to do), a country cannot in good conscience, create double standards. I don't want Iran having nuclear arms any more than you do. I simply think if we want to stop them from doing it, we need to work from within and not without. Nukes are a huge danger of course but so is the danger of misjudging political actions that create the people capable of pulling the trigger.
Seems since I was a kid, the world has gotten more and more lethal and our country keeps doing the same thing over and over with no end in sight. Might it not be time to see if another approach works? I truly don't know the answers to this dilemna but I'm not hearing them from you.
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