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Imagine if they had nuclear weapons.

Agreed, it was imperfect and did perhaps give Iran to much space to get involved in the proxy wars and enrich some uranium. But I thought it was as go...

I must admit, I really don't know what to say now.

Plausible until one considers that the missiles where positioned, or at least covering the flight path of domestic flights in and out of the airport.

I agree, that it was Bush and Blair who ramped it up over there. But the meddling in the region goes back a long way. As I see it, the US has always t...

I dont see the point, I can't see any way out of this for Trump. Well apart from his accepting that Iran will become a nuclear power, perhaps he can l...

So you've seen the light, that's a weight off my mind.

I have already answered this in reply to your questions and NOS4A2 yesterday. To summarise, any curb on Iran acquiring a nuclear bomb has now been rem...

NOS4A2's answer to the question was that Trump is now going to strike a tougher deal with the Iranians. Fat chance of that, sounds like he's got as li...

I'm not partisan, I'm over the pond. My interest is how the Middle East is going to kick off. My only concern is that there isn't a nuclear conflagrat...

Good point, I saw that press conference. Trump was at pains to say that it was not a US operation that brought down the plane, not our mistake, that i...

You seem to have the same attitude to this issue as to climate change. Nothing to important, it will all sort itself out soon enough, folk are sensibl...

Folk should realise that israel is paranoid of Iran and looks to the US to pacify them and prevent them acquiring a nuclear bomb. Trump has just lost ...

Yes and we already know that Putin has been characterising Europe and the US as aggressors against Russia in the Russian media. This fires up his base...

When I say Brexit will be done, I mean we will have legally left the EU on that date. Before that date we are still members and could in theory revoke...

I agree with the first paragraph. With the second it shows that johnson is still running scarred of appearing with, or endorsing Trump. He is probably...

We could go back and forth over a lot of those issues, for a few pages and it probably wouldn't leave anyone any the wiser. I was speculating on what ...

If the US turns away, then Russia will fill the void. They are spreading their influence through Ukraine, Turkey and Syria already. If they get into b...

To re-establish their role on the world stage as a super power. They probably feel diminished now that a number of Eastern European states have now jo...

I don't know, but I expect they will want to become an influential friend to a crescent of countries across the Middle East. They talk of Syria as a c...

Quite so, it's populism on steroids again, showmanship designed to deflect from the impeachment scandal and win an election. Trump doesn't know how to...

Watching Trump's victory speech, it was classic electioneering. He is claiming the kudos of a war hero, without having the war, a smart move, it will ...

I doubt they will get a tighter deal, by that time Iran will be proped up by Russia, so they won't play ball. Trump has scuppered the only chance ther...

So they're going to negotiate another deal, just not Obama's deal. By that point they will already have a bomb, then it's to late, and Trump will have...

What, like North Korea? Are you going to answer the question about Iran becoming nuclear?

Pushing Tehran into the hands of Russia. This is why they and the Iraqis want the US presence out of the region.

We still don't know how the airliner came down in Tehran lastnight with Brits, Germans and over 50 Canadians on board. Also Israel is bristling with N...

How is the US going to prevent Iran becoming a nuclear power?

I'm envious of your weather (assuming you don't have tornados), here it has been cold, cloudy and rainy for about four months. We have tiny, or stormy...

Nice video, I was remembering this moment. But remember Trump thinks Obama was a weak black foreigner, not the same.

I don't know why this thread has been hijacked by people talking about Kant, it must be a kind of Twister played by philosophers. It's really very sim...

Now is the time for him to step up to the plate, as the US is on the brink of war. But he seems to be hiding.

Will the Iran war expose the weakness of an independent UK, soon to be Little England.

That won't stop them, he will just tell them Iran's got to be stopped and they will all ( well enough for him to say it's the will of the people) bow ...

Well I don't think we can answer that, or even if it is a valid question. I don't see why it is important, he might be in contact with all the beings ...

Perhaps I should ask you to define God, or which theological system you are referencing? I am saying that our kind of thinking is not up to the job of...

Except it would be under duress, a kind of blackmail, nice. Johnson would never have the support of, or mandate from the British people to go to war a...

This sounds good, but has no basis in reality if one is attempting to prove anything about God. Even if you are defining God as an unknown limited ent...

Thanks for your clarification, which I agree with. I was thinking primarily of high Art. I have a bit of an axe to grind myself.

Art has had a difficult time ove the last century. The rise of modernism and conceptual art has ripped open what art was supposed to be and what const...

They were never going to satisfy the hawks in Washington. There is no way to stop the war, because eventually the Iranians will get their nuclear bomb...

Surely the subject is what is touched/touched on, by the mind. The object is what is touched/encounted by the body. My body encounters numerous things...

Yes, I agree, but not via the route of the intellect alone, but via the route of knowing yourself, on the assumption that in some way yourself is God....

Your argument falls down here because we can't assume that any intellectual conclusions we make from our limited standpoint have any reality other tha...

But what about the billion or more people who live at, or slightly above sea level, will they come and join you, when you move uphill? I have recently...

I agree with your approach, although I notice you didn't have in your list, *in what ways are we polluting the planet and what are the likely conseque...

He might loose something, if he doesn't remember that he is about to go grovelling on his knees to Trump for his trade deal which is going to save our...

Well "just say no" is going to go well with a hard Brexit, with the inevitable brinkmanship we are going to see towards the end of the year when Johns...

I think we need to look at where infinity comes from. It is simply a product of a kind of human thinking. Human thought is a response to finding itsel...

I can't speak for Democrats, but all the anti Trump folk in the UK and they are in the majority, do not remain silent on the nutters in Tehran, they k...