What Is An "Imminent" Threat?

[Independent thinker]

Many of our lefty friends keep on saying that the Iran war is wrong because Iran wasn't an "imminent" threat. Several of them have said that they would be perfectly fine if Iran enriched Uranium to weapons grade, had nuclear bombs, and even possessed ballistic missiles which could reach all of the way here to the US. So, I ask them, "What exactly is an imminent threat? What would Iran have to do for it to be considered an imminent threat? Would we have to wait until Iran attacked or nuked us first?

 

[1srelluc]

They see Trump as an:

 

[TNHarley]

imminent threat means a danger is immediate.
People have been screaming about Iran for DECADES. That is not imminent. Its the boy who cried wolf.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

imminent threat means a danger is immediate.
People have been screaming about Iran for DECADES. That is not imminent. Its the boy who cried wolf.

the Iranians have the material to build 11 bombs, and you say it wasn't imminent threat. You are stupid.

 

[Independent thinker]

imminent threat means a danger is immediate.
People have been screaming about Iran for DECADES. That is not imminent. Its the boy who cried wolf.

You did not answer the question. What would Iran have to do in order to be an imminent threat?

 

[TNHarley]

the Iranians have the material to build 11 bombs, and you say it wasn't imminent threat. You are stupid.

DECADES.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Neither the site leftists nor the anarcho-libertarian types have taken the time to learn what the Mullahs are all about.

This baffles me because the Mullahs represent the antitheses of the belief systems they profess otherwise.

 

[TNHarley]

You did not answer the question. What would Iran have to do in order to be an imminent threat?

I literally answered the question in the OP title.

 

[TNHarley]

Neither the site leftists nor the anarcho-libertarian types have taken the time to learn what the Mullahs are all about.

This baffles me because the Mullahs represent the antitheses of the belief systems they profess otherwise.

I know what kind of pieces of shit they are. I know they have no problem killing innocent people.
And now we are the ones killing innocent people.

 

[jc456]

imminent threat means a danger is immediate.
People have been screaming about Iran for DECADES. That is not imminent. Its the boy who cried wolf.

sure it is, they have something they weren't allowed to have. That's imminent.

 

[TNHarley]

sure it is, they have something they weren't allowed to have. That's imminent.

Who said? The UN? The group you MAGAs hate with passion because they are corrupt liars?
Who said they werent allowed to have something? Us? The only country on earth that has used one? The country that has threatened like 10 countries in the past 15 months?

 

[Failzero]

The will , desire and ability to kill Americans

 

[jc456]

Who said? The UN? The group you MAGAs hate with passion because they are corrupt liars?
Who said they werent allowed to have something? Us? The only country on earth that has used one? The country that has threatened like 10 countries in the past 15 months?

obammy did the deal. Are you saying that didn't have authority and trump was right to get out of it?

 

[TNHarley]

obammy did the deal. Are you saying that didn't have authority and trump was right to get out of it?

We should have never gotten involved.
We should have never gotten involved with Iran 70 years ago. Which started all this bullshit.

 

[jc456]

The will , desire and ability to kill Americans

the mere fact they were making bombs on little drones that could fly forever and hit targets. That if made nuclear grade, would be sent out to destroy the globe. oh, and because they lie like I shit, no one could've stopped them. It took now to be able to. The globe is seeing how they feel, their people are useless to them, pons in their game and expendable. It is amazing how much dems don't know about the globe being all in on it.

 

[buttercup]

 

[Churchill]

Many of our lefty friends keep on saying that the Iran war is wrong because Iran wasn't an "imminent" threat. Several of them have said that they would be perfectly fine if Iran enriched Uranium to weapons grade, had nuclear bombs, and even possessed ballistic missiles which could reach all of the way here to the US. So, I ask them, "What exactly is an imminent threat? What would Iran have to do for it to be considered an imminent threat? Would we have to wait until Iran attacked or nuked us first?

You tell me, the term doesn't exist in international law, its a made up term, no agreed meaning, the kind of thing Hitler said to justify attacking Russia or Poland or exterminating Jews all these were an imminent threat to the German people according to Hitler.

 

[Zavulon]

Many of our lefty friends keep on saying that the Iran war is wrong because Iran wasn't an "imminent" threat. Several of them have said that they would be perfectly fine if Iran enriched Uranium to weapons grade, had nuclear bombs, and even possessed ballistic missiles which could reach all of the way here to the US. So, I ask them, "What exactly is an imminent threat? What would Iran have to do for it to be considered an imminent threat? Would we have to wait until Iran attacked or nuked us first?

Basically, while the USA keep good Deterrence Type I (AKA "providing stability") capability - "You can't attack our nuclear forces in a way, that gives you chance to decrease our nuclear capabilities to the level at which we won't be able cause unacceptable damage to you. And if you nuke us first - we are going to retaliate", Iran won't attack the USA (may be exept vital threat situy). And nobody in the world (exept Russia) has capability to effectively destroy US nuclear forces by the first.

So, answer on your question is simple. Iran might become a realistic threat only if it acquires an arsenal better and larger than Russian one.