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Posted on 11/12/2011 6:26:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich said at the Republican presidential debate here Saturday night that they would be willing to go to war to keep Iran from attaining nuclear weapons if all other strategies failed.
Romney said that if "crippling sanctions" and other strategies fail, military action would be on the table because it is "unacceptable" to Iran to become a nuclear power. Gingrich agreed, saying that if "maximum covert operations" and other strategies failed there would be no other choice.
Ron Paul strongly disagreed, stressing the need to go to Congress before military action and saying it isn't worthwhile to use military force against Iran.
"I'm afraid what's going on right now is similar to the war propaganda that went on against Iraq," he said.
Herman Cain also opposed military action against Iran, saying the U.S. should increase sanctions, deploy ballistics missiles warships in the region and assist the opposition movement.
The "Commander-in-Chief Debate," sponsored by CBS News and National Journal, was the first of the 2012 presidential cycle to focus on foreign policy - and the first to appear on network television. For Cain, the stakes were particularly high.
Cain holds a narrow lead among GOP primary voters in the CBS News poll released Friday, with 18 percent of the vote, but he has seen his support weaken in the wake of revelations that he has been accused of sexual misconduct by four women....
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
I don’t think I would take military action off the table even if actual military action is a mistake.
It should be kept on the table because the Iranian leadership is watching the debates.
The Democrats came up with particularly unsympathetic victims
I wish they'd improve the quality of the hired liars ~ these ol'gals looked like they'd been rode hard and put away wet too many times.
Cain and Bachmann would return to waterboarding.
The Iranians are, after all, descendants of the Persians, so they'll assume we are lying to them because, after all, they lie all the time to each other. These are the guys who invented TEMPORARY MARRIAGE!
So will either of these guys go to war against Mexico, an enemy nation that is trying - succeeding - to invade and colonize the United States? That's a real threat, not a fake one.
They have boats don't they? They have shipping containers, don't they?
Did any one hear that Pakistan moves their 100 nukes unguarded from one place to another?
Does any one not know that Al Qaeda leaders are given sanctuary in Pakistan? For crying out loud, Bin Laden was living in a large house near the Pakistani military academy for over 5 years?
Why is Iran with their 1 nuke more dangerous than Pakistan with their 100 nukes and a shaky situation?
Much like many of Obama’s anecdotal examples:
1 - Healthcare debate Obama telling story of a woman who got denied coverage that was a lie
2 - Jobs bill Obama told the story of a teacher who got laid off who didn’t actually get laid off...
And now with Cain, the left has found some women who had stories to tell which sound bad on the face but do not stand up to any sort of scrutiny.
Cain being unwilling to stop Iran is where he loses me. I was more than willing to go ahead with EVERYTHING else, but not this.
Gingrich 2012!
They aren’t going to “go to war” to prevent Iran from getting the bomb.
The correct answer is "Everything is on the table."
It may not be true, but the Iranians don't know that. As Sun Zi said "All warfare is based on deception."
War with Iran is idiotic. Just attack their nuclear program or help Israel do it. We shouldn’t be going to war with anyone unless its absolutely necessary. War with Iran is not necessary in the least. Take out their nukes and let them pound sand.
They are not more dangerous, but that is not a good reason for letting nukes proliferate. If we can do something to stop them from getting a nuke, we should do just that.
Once a country becomes a nuclear power, we have to be more careful with them. They also have much more influence with surrounding countries.
Pakistan has India as a counterbalance. Iraq used to be the counterbalance to Iran but that is no longer the case. Pakistan won’t screw around with nukes because India will obliterate them.
As far as MRBMs in the Caribbean, that would be the excuse we've been waiting on for the last 50 years since Khruschev pulled the missiles back. Go ahead, make our day.
The whole thing is laughable. Iran is, as the nice CIA guy said last night, Israel's problem. We should just contract the hit on them to Netanyahu.
But Mexico is right next door, animated by centuries of resentment and hatred, and a seething rage at the "loss" of "their" territories...you know, the land that had all the big airports, skyscrapers, freeways, houses....and us evil gringos took it. Damn. So they gotta get it back, and, lacking a nuke or two, they figured out that they could just walk in, and if anyone objects, call them a racist. If a state makes a law, sue them in their own courts, even when it's an outrage that such a thing could be.
And if they really try to resist, don't hold back - make veiled threats with your military by crossing into the U.S. with impunity and having your paramilitary terrorist forces ("Los Zetas") shoot up a few places. Pretty soon the populace shuts up and gets in line.
Sorry. It's true we have an M&M problem: Muslims and Mexico. Of the two, the latter is the most pertinent...at the moment.
The former? They're only a threat if we let their people in to our country. That's how they hit us the last few times. Stop letting them in, and presto...the problem goes away.
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