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We should tighten economic sanctions against Iran

Page history last edited by Mike 12 years, 1 month ago

Issues / Combating Nuclear Terrorism

 

We should tighten economic sanctions against Iran.

Reasons to agree:

  1. Economic sanctions do not work perfectly, but they are better than war, and they do weaken the state.
  2. We should punish bad behavior. +2
  3. "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)."
  4. Iran has broken international law. Laws mean nothing if they are not enforced.
  5. 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.
  6. Iran is a repressive regime.
  7. Iran is an intractable enemy of liberty and human rights.
  8. Iran is the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism and subversive war.
  9. The Iranian regime is unalloyed evil, run by people who are at once ruthless and fanatical.
  10. We should stop thinking that a charm offensive will talk the Iranians out of their pursuit of nuclear weapons.
  11. 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.”
  12. There are costs to anything we do, but there are even greater costs if we do nothing at all.
  13. 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. 
  14. The clock is ticking, with no real progress to show for the precious time that has already lapsed.

Reasons to disagree:

  1. 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: 

  1. Groupism. Disagreeing with someone from the other group, Obama Democrat, if you are a republican.

 

Interest of those who disagree: 

  1. Groupism. Agreeing with someone from the their group, Obama Democrat, if you are a democrat. 
 
Articles that agree:
  1. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34061

 

Also see:

  1. The leaders in Iran now don't even have good religious credentials.
  2. Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri is cool.

 

 

 

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