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Originally Posted by Schwarzer Ritter
So, you're willing to take a chance on some rogue regime getting a nuke.
How many times do we read about killing baby Hitler to save the Jews.
How about killing baby Islamic terror state to save the Jews?
Some of you know that the Jews are first on the list but America is second.
Imminent threat...where's does that begin? When your angry, criminal neighbor talks trash about you?
Or your angry, criminal neighbor kills your dog?
Or your angry, criminal neighbor is threatening your family?
How about when he says he getting his gun?
How about when he returns with his gun which may or may not be loaded?
Do you let him fire the first shot?
Or do you let him wound you so you are now convinced that he is a problem?
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The discussion was about whether Iran had an imminent nuclear capability.
The neighbor analogies don’t really address that. They turn a factual question about intelligence and timelines into a hypothetical moral scenario.
Whether something is an “imminent threat” depends on evidence about capability and intent, not on analogies about neighbors with guns.
