Originally Posted by
Buck Rogers
I think CBreezy would agree with your logic..
IOW.... Things can be justified/rationalized/forgiven due to..."reasons"?
At the very least, it might provide insight into someone else's perspective I guess. But then again, Trump is on record in multiple interviews even as far back as 1980 saying Iran can not have a nuclear weapon. According to AI he's on record at least 74 times advocating against Iran and nucs. That's 45 years...not like it's a surprise which way he would lean if there were doubts. I don't think many/any on a certain spectrum even acknowledged the possibility of success of Midnight Hammer. Seems like the mantra then was it wasn't effective as Trump said. Maybe he listened to the opposition party? Wonder where that 460Kg of 60% enriched uranium is?.
“These could be easily transported anywhere, in pickup trucks, as they are stored in sealed metal containers,” Levy told The Media Line. “There is enough material there for a bomb.”
A 60% enrichment level requires more material to build a bomb than weapons-grade uranium, but the quantity reported by the IAEA—over 400 kg—is far beyond the threshold. According to IAEA data, just 42 kg of uranium enriched to that level is enough to produce a nuclear weapon."
https://themedialine.org/top-stories...after-strikes/
One needn’t “justify or forgive” someone to explain logical reasons why they may be paranoid.
Nor is Trump the only world leader who’s been saying that Iran must never get a nuclear weapon. Most of European leaders and former Presidents since Reagan considered it a red line they couldn’t be allowed to cross. Even Obama wanted them to give him ten years so it would be someone else’s problem.
Trump is simply the first one to convert talk into action and without Israel’s decapitation strikes I think even he might have hesitated. But when the [mod edit] is going to hit the fan anyway there is a temptation to say “in for a penny, in for a pound” and cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war…