The most threatening answer is that America waits to be bloodied because it has lost its will to defend itself after five years of chasing rogue-state-sponsored gangsters and after three years of occupation in failed-state Iraq against Tehran- and Damascus-backed agents. A grave possibility is that America is now drained, bowed, ready to surrender to the tyrants of Tehran.I'd like to know why the US is waiting to be struck again by Iran before acting.
Then again, perhaps America has been here before, and it is part of America's destiny as the New Jerusalem that we rarely start wars but that we are unusually good at finishing them.
There is a strange parallel right now to the first days of December 1941, before the Japanese sneak attack. America was still not in the war in Asia and Europe, but it was busy getting ready for a momentous calamity and was filled with the presentiment of doom.
Iran invaded the US embassy in 1979. US diplomats were held hostage for 444 days. You do remember reading about this in your history books right?
Iran has been involved in any number of international terrorist attacks, including the 1983 Marine Barracks attack, where 241 Marines were killed by Hizbullah suicide bombers. Hizbullah is the proxy army for Iran.
Iran's proxies continue to agitate violence in Iraq, and are fighting Israel as we speak.
What will it take to convince the Western world that Iran means to carry out its ongoing and repeated threats to submit to its version of Islam or face the consequencs? This, as Iran continues to seek nuclear weapons and the means to produce them.
How many more attacks must the US and the West endure before acting to end this threat? The UN cannot deal with the issue as it has been thoroughly coopted by those who think that countering the US is in their best interests despite all the evidence to the contrary. Russia and China, I'm talking to you.
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