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Oh please, the whole Islam thing is just a political ploy. Ahmadinejad and most of the high-ranking Iranian politicians are no more devout, fanatical Muslims than I'm the Pope of Mars. They talk the talk and galvanize the faithful to vote for them and stand strong against the infidels, then once the faithful are distracted they're like any other politicians. Possibly the president is one of the faithful, but he has little real power when it comes right down to it. The reason he's calling you infidels is because you're threatening his country with a military strike and because he needs his people's support in case you actually go through with it.
And the reason they don't care about the EU is because they think we're buddy-buddy with the US. If we show them that we stand up to injustice rather than just going along with our allies on everything, then they might have some respect for us. Plenty of Muslims are capable of getting along with those of other faiths.
We would, of course, not just show up unannounced. We'd tell the Iranians that we'd be willing to offer support if they wanted it, sell them military gear at a discount price and otherwise make sure they're as ready to repel a US invasion as they could possibly be. It wouldn't be a World War unless the US wanted to blow through EU forces, in which case, wow, the US would truly be left with no allies.
Please, pull out of Iraq, it'll be a bloody hellhole for a decade or two, if Iran doesn't interfere, in which case it'll be a bloody hellhole until they stabilize it with an iron fist, but in the end it'll be stable again. US interference and, I'm sorry to say it, military incompetence are just making the situation there worse.
Not sure who you're saying would be "standing proud" and "getting shot," here. The only ones I can think of in an invasion of Iran would be US soldiers, because the US would not be the superior force in that case. Outnumbered, equalled in training, equalled in arms, beaten in fanaticism and advancing into extremely defensible terrain.
Sure, the US could just drop nukes from afar, but, like I said, that IS exactly the thing that'll get you nukes back, even if you're just using "little" tac-nukes.
Iran is a country full of living people, they will not give nukes to people as utterly unpredictable as fanatical terrorists. Suppose a bunch of terrorists from one sect or another suddenly decided Iran wasn't devout enough after receiving Iranian nukes? Yeah, I wouldn't want to be Iran then either. Nor would I want to be Iran if Iranian nukes blew up a US city, because then we get into MAD territory, then the US has no reason not to drop the Big Bomb on Iran. Hell, if ANY nukes blew up in the US, then you know the US would flip out and fling nukes back at just about every Muslim country even vaguely suspected of having the technology, none of them are going to take the chance.
Iran is not a baseless terrorist group that can not receive retaliation for their actions, the very fact that they're a sovereign state forces them to tread carefully. If they ARE making nukes, it's weapons of last resort and self defense. It's not for offense, it's just to point at in case the US starts waving it's military dick at them.
It's no coincidence that this is all going on while there's a major concentration of US military forces in a neighbouring country.
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