There has to be a cost benefit analysis applied to foreign policy.
Yeah, that would be nice.
Iran supports southwest asian terrorism...not terrorism directed at the United States.
Iran supplied weapons used against Americans in Iraq and Afganistan.
.jcs.mil/speech.aspx?id=1352
They fund Hezbola and Hamas. The
Ayatollah Khomeini coined the phrase great satan, refering to the USA, and it is still commonly used by Ahmadenijad in speeches.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Satan
They are behind the majority of terrorism in Israel.
cfr.org/iran/state-sponsors-iran/p9362
The Iranian people are very pro western..you're confusing government policy with the will of the people; The Iranian people have been pro western since the 1970's, you can google articles from the period.
Agree, but its not the will of the people that matters and it never is in a totalitarian state.
The terrorists that have been successful domestically in the United States aren't sponsored by nations.
Not openly but it's naive to think there isn't government funding of terrorist groups in general.
Iran isn't a national threat to America....
The 9-11 commission reported close ties between senior Al Qaida and Iranian security officials with many documented trips across the Iranian border.
govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/report/911Report.pdf
A fundamentalist Islamic government, working on nukes, with the record I posted above, is not a threat?
What is your "Iran policy?
That's a good question. I haven't read any good answers here, or heard any from ANY administration. It's a tough problem. One thing I'm certain of, is that Herman Cain is incapable of coming up with the right answer (to keep to the topic of the thread).
(I don't have enough posts to provide full links, so you have to provide your own http etc..)