War with Iran

Iran's threats against the U.S. carry no water. The countries Iran allies itself with have weak conventional military forces and alliances with Russia and China are useless. Russia and China do not want to start a third World War over Iran 1) ICBM's are very hard to build and Iran will never obtain them. Even India, a long time nuclear state, does not have ICBM's. Russia has currently been aiding Iran's nuclear technology, not giving advanced long range missiles to Iran. Russia is a very stable government and the Cold War is over. They know the consequences of Iran having an ICBM and nuclear weapons. If they don't want us giving nuclear technology and long range Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles to South Korea and Ukraine they won't do the same for Iran. You need to prove that Russia is actually willing to give an ICBM missile to Iran and not simply Intermediate or Short range missiles, or even missiles at all. 2) Israel has always been badly outnumbered such as was the case in the Yom Kippur War and the Six Day war [1][2]. They have always managed to come out on top with very low casualties and have inflicted serious defeats against their enemies. Back then one of the major combatants for the Arab nations was Egypt, they won't be fighting Israel again. Jordan, Syria, Palestine, and Iran combined do not have a capable military force that the Israeli's can't defeat. Israel is a first world nation and has superior weapons and technology from their western allies. Despite being outnumbered in previous conflicts Israel has always dealt crushing blows to its enemies. If Iran is shown to have nuclear weapons and the will to use them Israel will use its nuclear weapons in a pre-emptive strike negating the need for a U.S. intervention. 3. According to your source Iran has been funding Hamas to fight Israel, not the U.S. This is an Israeli issue, not a U.S. one. Israel is perfectly capable of defending herself from Hamas insurgents and is more than capable of destroying Iran. There is no need for the U.S. to get involved since Israel is already a much more powerful military compared to her opponents. Israel will fight Iran when it wants to. We didn't start wars with Egypt, Jordan and Syria when Israel was fighting for their soveirgnty and we don't need to start now. When Israel thinks that Iran, beyond a reasonable doubt has nuclear weapons, they will surely launch a preimptive attack themselves as they did in Iraq [3] 4a.Despite being outnumbered, Israel has always proven to overcome their enemies with superior weapons and training. (See Yom Kippur and Six Day War below) 4b. The U.S. has a very strong military presence in the Middle East. In the very unlikely event Israel does begin to become overrun, the U.S. can immediately send supplies, soldiers, and material to Israel in a matter of hours. The U.S. has the capability to load large cargo planes with tanks, supplies and soldiers and we have such cargo planes all over the Middle East. It would take only a few hours to respond in the event of a war with Israel and other Arab powers and in a few hours it is very unlikely Israel would already become overrun. 4c. You have yet to prove Iran will be getting any missiles what so ever from their allies and if you prove that you have to prove that they will be getting ICBM's 5a. Israel is more than capable of defending themselves and much more, there is no war going existing between Iran and Israel 5b. "The U.S. has the power and the reason to liberate those people". If we begin setting the precedant that the U.S. will go around attacking any nations that violates the rights of their people that only makes us look that world's policeman. That is not our occupation. Many U.S. allies are also notorious violaters of human rights. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, etc. Simply violating human rights is no reason to sacrifice thousands of U.S. lives and an enormous amount of U.S. resources. We cannot afford to go around the world waging large wars for the sake of the rights of people everywhere. We'd be at constant war for decades. 6. We can't attack every enemy country that builds up a military either. Again, we'd be in constant hard fought wars for decades. 40 million would not have died if England and France intervened immediately when Germany began annexing countries without opposition. We will intervene as soon as Iran makes similar movements. Currently it is a matter of whether or not Iran will even attack, currently they don't have nuclear weapons, they don't have a powerful military, and you need to prove that they have missiles that can't be shot down. When Iran has a decent military, then we'll be more concerned. In conclusion, Israel is a capable military power and has fought many wars while being outnumbered and has won. The U.S. can intervene militarily quickly in the event a conventional war breaks out. Iran does not posses nuclear weapons. Iran does not posses missiles that can't be shot down by U.S. ABM systems. Many countries including U.S. allies violate human rights and the U.S. does not have the manpower or resources to afford to wage wars against nations that do violate human rights or wage a 3rd large war in the middle East when currently, Iran does not pose a threat. We can't afford to wage wars for no good reason and currently there is no good reason to go to war with Iran [1] http://en.wikipedia.org... (Yom Kippur War) [2] http://en.wikipedia.org... (Six Day War) [3] http://en.wikipedia.org... (Israeli attack on Iraq)