[Astronaut]

The Iranians have been begging to be nuked since November, 1979. I say grant them their wish.

[rbg81]

Yup, we’ve ignored Iran for too long. Like ignoring a lump under the armpit that turns out to be cancer.

Bringing them to heel even ten years ago might have been cheap. Now the price will be high indeed.

[ClearCase_guy]

I think it has been a great mistake for the US not to use nuclear weapons against rogue nations developing nuclear capability. We should have nuked Stalin as soon as he tested a weapon. We should have nuked Pakistan. North Korea. Iran.

Non-proliferation would work a whole lot better of the dictators developing the technology had a tendency to disappear in a cloud of radioactive dust.

This sort of approach would probably have had to be applied only a couple times before people got the message -- and the result would have been a late 20th century world with a single nuclear power. Things would have been better.

And I say the opportunity is not yet totally lost. Iran should be used as an object lesson -- it's too big to invade. We cannot hope to win a ground war there. So: let's nuke it.