Issues / Combating Nuclear Terrorism
We should tighten economic sanctions against Iran.
Reasons to agree:
- Economic sanctions do not work perfectly, but they are better than war, and they do weaken the state.
- We should punish bad behavior. +2
- "The Iranian leadership is the greatest immediate threat to the world since the fall of the Soviet Union, (+5) and before that, Nazi Germany (Mitt Romney)."
- Iran has broken international law. Laws mean nothing if they are not enforced.
- When President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denies the Holocaust he is testing the water to determine who cares. (+1) If we don't respond, we are telling him that we don't care.
- Iran is a repressive regime.
- Iran is an intractable enemy of liberty and human rights.
- Iran is the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism and subversive war.
- The Iranian regime is unalloyed evil, run by people who are at once ruthless and fanatical.
- We should stop thinking that a charm offensive will talk the Iranians out of their pursuit of nuclear weapons.
- Once an outstretched hand is met with a clenched fist, it becomes a symbol of weakness and impotence. President Eisenhower said it well: “The care of freedom is not long entrusted to the weak and timid.”
- There are costs to anything we do, but there are even greater costs if we do nothing at all.
- If we allow Iran under the rule of the mullahs to get a nuclear weapon, it will make the problems America faces today look like a walk in the park.
- The clock is ticking, with no real progress to show for the precious time that has already lapsed.
Reasons to disagree:
- Sanctions do not harm the rulers of a bad country.
Score: +14 (reasons to agree), -1 (reasons to disagree), +8 (reasons to agree with reasons to agree) = 21
Interest of those who agree:
- Groupism. Disagreeing with someone from the other group, Obama Democrat, if you are a republican.
Interest of those who disagree:
- Groupism. Agreeing with someone from the their group, Obama Democrat, if you are a democrat.
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