re: #146 Cato the Elder

Well, then, mutatis mutandis, if Israel gets in a sitch where they have to drop the dog leash and the sixpack and strike first, you think they’re gonna be all upset about an assault charge?

Granted, I’m not Israel, and my fightin’ skillz are negligible, but I would still have preferred charges being preferred against me than letting a little shit like that win.

The fun part was he dropped the beer can in his flight, and I got to drink it later.

Let work with your analogy a little further if you don’t mind.

Odds are low that anyone is going to get killed by a single punch, so using “throwing the first punch” as analogy for nukes is a bad one in my opinion.

Instead lets us “firing the first shot” instead.

At the moment Israel has a gun, and Iran wants a gun.

It’d be wrong of Israel to shoot Iran as Iran walks into a guns & ammo store and then later say “well he was going in there to buy a gun which I then knew he’d later be trying to shoot me with…” Lets wait till we know for sure that Iran has a gun.

That said, once again I say this from the safety of my college dormitory, the US is a big and strong country and it’d take more than even a (single) nuclear weapon to wipe us off the map, and Iran doesn’t have the capacity to launch its nukes at us.

So I don’t consider myself in a good place to truly judge what Israel may need to do to survive, all I’m saying is let Iran throw the first punch, let Israel throw the first punch if it feels it needs to, I just don’t want to see the US throwing the first punch….