My question has been for years now why it has taken so long for us to decide to finally do this.
This is a nation subjugated by a fanatical theocracy (from a sect that believes that only an Armageddon brought about their actions can initiate their salvation) who has been howling "Death to America" for decades. Decades during which they have been killing Americans through terrorism and thousands of Americans in Afghanistan with their advanced IEDs.
The same fanatics howling Death To America, regularly killing Americans through those years, ever closer to finally having a nuclear weapon.
I expect and understand that there will be handwringers out there terrified that Iran already has that bomb and perhaps the ability to use it to strike us. Just as others will say they suspect this is BS from the Israelis; there is no Iran nuclear weapon program and this psy-ops Israel successfully used to get us to take out a war Israel started. (As though Israel somehow or other started Irans unending attacks on Israel through proxy terrorist groups)
For me the bottom line is this: Iran's Mad Mullahs have been screaming Death To America while planning and killing Americans for enough years. How many hundreds, thousands of dead Americans (and our allies) does it take to decide it is time to put an end to it?
When a government of theological fanatics keeps telling you they're going to kill you while doing just that to hundreds of your citizens through both terrorism and war - we're well past the time for putting an end to it.
While all the time our governments continue to hope that not only does Iran not actually want a nuclear bomb, but if they had one there's no way they'd put one in the hands of terrorists with the ability to get it inside our borders to detonate. That's a self-delusional charade.
This should have been put an end to long ago, not just when we knew they were working to develop nuclear weapons.
Better to have a president putting an end to the threat, than having to have a president later having the job of responding when the threat ultimately became a devastating attack.
Would we have had 9/11 and Bush having to respond if Clinton had reduced bin Ladin to room temperature several years before that when he had the chance to? You can't prove a negative, but we had a chance to take out bin Ladin and then go after his organization but we chose not to do that.
