Now Iran?!?!

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have some questions about those who would support attacking iran:

1. how many US victims would still be acceptable for you? 10.000? 30.000? more?
2. how many iranian victims would still be acceptable for you? 1 million? it doesn't matter?
3. what would be acceptable expenses of another war? 5 trillion US$? 10? (by some prognosis war in iraq will cost 1-2 trillion US$)
4. would it be reasonable to expect a heavy damage in US influence/interests around the globe?
5. would it be reasonable to expect a very negative consequences in the whole middle east including in already unstable Pakistan and nowadays US friendly countries like Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, etc. not to mention Iraq / Afghanistan.
6. who would pay those enormous expenses of war?

i'm not advocating iran should have nukes. it should be stopped, but not for the price of another war.

"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader." - Plato (427-347 B.C.)

"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose — and you allow him to make war at pleasure." - Abraham Lincoln

"If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest." ~ Thomas Jefferson

"No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him." ~ Thomas Jefferson

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Why are you asking me these questions?

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not you, i meant anyone who's supporting another unnecessary war. because when reading them (again, not your posts - those have some ground and i agree with most of your thoughts) i often get an impression posters are viewing the war like a computer game, where counts only the military victory regardless of the number of death, expenses, who's paying them, international consequences, etc. surely noone can really compete with brutal power of the US, but the question is how much another war is really needed / who would benefit from it / who would be paying for it either with money or life / how much did average american benefit from iraq adventure / was it good or was it bad decision / do i support double standards, etc?