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Originally Posted by Team Sergeant
I'm sure they're happy with that while they go on developing their nuclear capabilities.
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As I said in the other thread, I'm including nuclear weapon denial as a cornerstone of the containment strategy.
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We are not going to be able to "contain" iran from exporting terrorism on a global scale, or training terorists, or funding terrorism.
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I disagree with this completely. We've never attempted to comprehensively address Iran.
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Containment works great for those countries that seek world domination, not those that would welcome being left alone to their own devices.....
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Iran is seeking regional domination and world power status. They haven't gone turtle waiting to get a nuke. Quite the opposite.
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Who's making those "sophisticated" IED's and supplying them to the terrorists in iraq? oh, that's iran, not much containment there I guess. Please spare me the containment strategy......
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Did I say containment = status quo? No. Iran is currenlty completely uncontained. Thats the problem.
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What was your day job again?
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You're ascribing way too much passivity to "containment" than I mean.
When I say containment I'm talking about everything short of large-scale overt military action (unless its the only way to stop them from getting a nuke) to check Iranian influence: arming and training regional allies (under a formal anti-Iran alliance if possible), support to Iranian dissident groups (financial, diplomatic, etc), extensive and aggressive information operations to leverage Iranian public discontent, seizing weapons shipments to and from Iran, special operations against Iranian-backed terrorist groups outside Iranian territory, etc.
You know, a lot of the stuff you do on your day job.
