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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Dope1 ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Iran - The Difference in Assessment
Date: 03/13/26 4:03 PM
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I think you misunderstand my point. They were "right," in the sense that there was not an easy an effective alternative solution to the Iran problem in the form of military invasion. They were right in recognizing that the likely outcome of a military invasion is that the situation doesn't get any better, and we end up wasting enormous resources to come out the other side with the exact same problem we had going in. To wit, an authoritarian dictatorship that both desires to present a security threat to its neighbors and has a large enough economy to be able to acquire the means to present that security threat no matter what the U.S. does.

Then they're even more wrong. Their actions actively accelerated Iran's position in the region and led to the deaths of thousands of people in Israel and beyond.

As to the rest, let it play out.
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