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.