It took us far longer to own up to blowing up a hospital.
Things like that, which occur during wartime, are often harder to assess than blowing a passenger plane out of the sky taking off from your own airport. Not to mention, I don't put it past our enemies in the ME to blow things up themselves and blame others, so those things might take longer to investigate. Other than that, I have no good explanation as to why our country would delay owning up to it.
We knew who blew it up. There was no investigation necessary. Iran's top military leader had just been assassinated. That's not war time?
Anyways, since a lot of our "allies" are still relying on oil from this part of the world, we have to fight to keep this area of the world stabilized (no matter WHAT things occurred in the past), or else these things are going to affect us as well.
I would like nothing more than to be an isolationist and completely wash our hands of that area of the world, but I don't believe that is possible at this point in time. We are a major and important contributor in our one world economy and in keeping it running smoothly.
What happens if Iran takes control of all of the important oil fields or something like that? Then they control the world. Do you people realize that?
The people of Iran is not accepting excuses. You on the other hand.........
Accepting reality, you mean? The fact of the matter is, we have interests to protect there because we ARE a part of the global economy! Like it or not. You can't let these people spread out too far. They cause problems for the global economy which affects all of us.
"These people"......screw that. We have NO business attacking all these countries and killing tens of thousands of innocent people.
I know, we should just take out their leaders because they are the real problem, but the people have to be strong enough to resist and avoid having the same types taking over their country again.
I think the problem in this world is that we have crazy extremists running the ME and that is where much of the world gets oil. As much as you may not like it, oil still makes the world go round.
I really also just think it's about time these people were allowed to join us in this century instead of being oppressed by their crazy dictators. That is pretty sad, and I have nothing against the Iranian people. I feel sorry for them.