Quote:Ayatollah Khamenei has been in power since 1989. He's had 25 years to "commit suicide" and hasn't. As close of allies and Iran and Russia are, surely he could have arranged for a nuke to make its way over the border. At some point, doesn't one have to acknowledge the possibility that maybe he doesn't want to blow the world up?

 

As much as Americans (apparently including you) want to believe that we still set the rules for the rest of the world to play by, that's not true. We don't get to say, "You can have nuclear weapons because you're our friend, but you can't because we don't like you." We don't get to start a war and tell everyone else to stay out of it. This isn't 1995. We're not the sole surviving superpower. Russia, China and the EU have as much say in things as we do these days. That's the world we live in. If you don't like it, too bad. The game has changed. The people who have changed with it and are willing to work towards agreements and accountability are the ones who will shape the future, and the people who still harbor this silly notion that America dictates the rules that everyone else plays by will find themselves left behind. Hopefully that second group all fades away before they get the rest of us killed.

 

  Iran views time much differently than the west.   They look at thing over a much longer time frame than what most in the west can even comprehend.    Twenty five years is practically nothing from their perspective.  

 

  Even if Iran doesn't get nuclear weapons,  I believe that the U.S. is very vulnerable to a nuclear bomb being set off in America because of the horrific border security.   Islamic State and other entities with similar mindsets want to bring America to its knees.  

 

 The United States has to protect its citizens above all else.   If the U.S. would have dealt from strength all along,  we wouldn't be in the dire situation we are now in.   It's been apparent on this end well before January, 20, 2009 that Obama wouldn't act in the best interest of the U.S.   He wants a one world type of government,  which from my perspective is the antithesis of what the vision of the founding fathers and mothers of the United States had.   The next President of the U.S. must prioritize U.S. sovereignty.    If someone other than Ted Cruz running for President pledges he / she will support the U.S. defunding and leaving the U.N. ,  that person probably will have my vote even over Cruz.   That's how important this issue is for me.  

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