Kantor said:
Jumpin said: If Iran has to give up its nukes, then the US should give up theirs as well. |
The USA is, at least nominally, a democracy, which has signed the non-proliferation treaty, is not engaged in any wars against a nation, and serves to gain nothing by nuclear bombing its neighbours or, indeed, any other country. Furthermore, it has possessed nuclear weaponry for the last 68 years and has not dropped a nuclear bomb for the last 67. The last time it dropped an atomic bomb, it was engaged in a war which could not possibly be ended any other way (without a great deal of bloodshed on both sides).
Iran is a rogue state which has openly threatened the existence of other states, a dictatorship known for renegade actions, which holds strong grudges against many of its neighbours and feels that its existence is threatened.
There is an enormous difference between the two countries.
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The US has not only threatened other countries, but has actually invaded them; Iraq was invaded illegally by the US. Iran hasn't even gone that far. Also, no country except the US has used Nuclear weapons in warfare. The US should not have nuclear weapons.
The US is constantly trying to alienate Asian countries as well, especially China. It doesn't matter if the US is a democracy if half of your people are racist, gun-crazed, nationalistic lunatics who never think for themselves anyway; a good portion of the US population still think things like the greenhouse effect and evolution are a myth. They voted in Bush Junior... twice; that is enough evidence to show that Democracy is somewhat of a failure in the US - that is something that should have never happened. COnsidering how insane the US is, and the fact that they have nuclear weapons, it is obvious who the biggest threat to world peace is. If the US wants other countries under threat by them to give up their means of defense, the US should give up at least part of their means of offense, and seeing Nuclear weapons gone from the US arsenal would make most people in the world feel a little safer; and the deal would also mean they would be gone from Iran's too.