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Originally posted by NousDefionsDoc
What's the root cause of the declaration of war?
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Depends on what theory you buy into:
1) Arab humiliation
2) A kind of Islamic Manifest Destiny
3) One man's desire to become the next caliph
4) A leader motivated by power needs to perpetuate his cult of personality
5) Bad men do bad things
6) Prior to having nuclear weapons, Iran needed a way to asymmetically counter American power.
7) They actually think that is the right thing to do.
8) The supreme being is actually on their side
9) Bush senior created thsi situation so that his son would get re-elected.
There's all kinds of theories out there. Without knowing the answer, it is mere mental masturbation to come up with some way to address the 'root cause'. So...