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The amazing thing about your last 2 posts is that you're simultaneously saying we were isolationist at the same time period in history in which Hitler+Germany demanded that we give them countries. If we're being isolationist how could we be involved with those countries and be able to "give them" to Germany? This is basic common sense that you're arguing with, not me.
I think you are confused, or trying to make an argument out of thin air. It wasn't the acquiescence of the US that Hitler had been seeking, it was Europe's, mainly France and England. The US did not have pacts with the soon-to-be devoured countries like Poland did with England. The US was isolationist at the time, and there were huge demonstrations in the US to avoid getting involved in another of Europe's wars.
Sounds like you're calling for a holy war, much the same as the terrorists are, an eerily similar mindsight. It's kind of that same dumb, ignorant argument kids use about their dads being stronger and nicer than the other guys dad in terms of how you and your ilk talk about your God being stronger and nicer than the other guys (muslims) God.
Iran has murdered more Americans than any other nation - EVER - without the US declaring war on it. It is not the US chanting in state-sanctioned rallies "death to iran". It is not the US who takes iranian hostages on a regular basis. And it is not the US who is driving proxies to foment wars or conduct suicide bombings against other nations' civilian populations.
Iran is guilty of all of these, and its diseased dictatorship's raison d'etre is to "spread its revolution." It is a cancer who now has several nations under its spell, and this situation is not acceptable, nor is its drive for nuclear weapons.
All I'm doing in terms of the isolationist argument is using your own words against you, you said we were simultaneously isolationalist and had power over countries Germany wanted. You said that, not me.
You do know that the US ended real democracy in Iran and gave full financial backing to Saddam in his war (which included gas warfare) against Iran, correct?
Stuxnet returns to Bushehr reactor. Russia warns of nuclear explosion
Iran's atomic energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi said on Jan. 29 that the Bushehr nuclear power plant would be connected to the national grid on April 9. He "forgot" about Tehran's promise to fully activate its first nuclear reactor Tuesday, Jan. 25. Moscow sources reveal that on that day, Iran's hand on the switch was held back at the last minute by Sergei Kiriyenko, chief of Rosatom (the Russian national nuclear energy commission which oversaw the reactor's construction. He came hurrying over to warn Tehran that Stuxnet was back and switching the reactor on could trigger a calamitous nuclear explosion that could cost a million Iranian lives and devastate neighboring populations. He complained to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Iranian nuclear and engineering staff were ignoring the presence of the malworm and must be stopped.
Kiriyenko told the Iranian president that the Russian engineers employed at the reactor notified Moscow that Stuxnet was again attacking the Bushehr systems after apparently taking a rest from its first onslaught last June. There was no telling which systems had been infected, because a key feature of the virus is that the systems' screens show they are working normally when in fact they have been fatally disarmed. Activating the reactor in these circumstances could cause an explosion far more powerful than the disaster at the Russian reactor at Chernobyl, Ukraine in April 1986, which released 400 times more radioactive material than the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
The impression the Rosatom chief had gained from his staff at Bushehr was that the Iranian teams had been ordered to activate the reactor at any price to prove that the Islamic Republic had beaten Stuxnet. This concern overrode security. The consequences of ignoring this fearful hazard, said Kiriyenko, were unthinkable and would destroy the revolutionary Islamic regime in Tehran in their wake.
This week, Salehi, who is also Iran's foreign minister, hinted at the cause of the delay when he said: "The reactor has started its operation and the next step is to reach critical phase which will happen by the end of Bahman (February 20) in presence of Russians. We have said before that due to some tests, we may have to face delays but these delays are around a week or two." He added, "We aim at launching Bushehr nuclear reactor safely not to merely launch it."
In Jerusalem, Maj-Gen. Aviv Kohavi, the new head of IDF military intelligence - MI, who appeared before the Knesset Security and Foreign Affairs Committee for his first briefing on Jan. 25 said Bushehr could be quickly converted from producing electricity for civilian use to a military reactor and incorporated into Iran's weapons program.
The next day, Jan. 26, Moscow took the unusual step of demanding a NATO investigation into last year's computer attack on the Russian-built nuclear reactor in Iran.
Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, said: T"his virus, which is very toxic, very dangerous, could have very serious implications," he said, describing the virus's impact as being like "explosive mines".
"These 'mines' could lead to a new Chernobyl," he said.
The IAEA — the U.N. monitor of Iran's nuclear activities — declined comment on damage at Bushehr. But officials, who asked for anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the issue, have said the agency is unhappy with safety and operating standards at the reactor.