Prime Minister Mark Carney argues the war against Iran was justified because it halted Tehran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. The evidence, Ted Snider writes, suggests otherwise. Iran was not building a bomb, diplomacy had already achieved major concessions, and the war inflicted immense human, economic, and environmental costs.
The truth isn’t something you get from “evaluating” a bunch of “alt-media” websites. That’s just doing the “I did my own research on the internet”.
Nuclear physics is science. Iran’s uranium purification project is not for civilian use, it’s a nuclear weapons program. Denying this is like denying the world is flat because you choose to ignore science because you want to go along with your political allies.
The truth isn’t convenient, it’s not always going to conform to what your politcal group says.
“We take the world as it is, not as we wish it to be” is a totally empty slogan. Who do you think isn’t dealing with the world as they think it is? You think people who disagree are all just going around in willful fantasy? No. Of course not. Everybody is dealing with the world as they think it is. Reasonable people disagree on how the world is. The slogan tries to make an authoritative claim on having the only true worldview, which may sound great to people who don’t think critically for even a second about it, or who simply share his biases about how the world is, but it’s no more material than saying “We make sensible choices, not insane choices.”
So, the only thing your initial comment and your subsequent reply really indicate is that you haven’t actually thought about what that rhetoric means at all and you’re just leaning into confirmation bias on your worldview because it feels nice to invalidate other worldviews as false while confirming your own as the one true way of seeing the world. Sorry, that’s just uncritically accepting authority based on an empty feel good slogan. It’s a stupid thing to do and to advocate for.
Of course, you could consider how Iran was previously subject to a nuclear agreement that they abided by, had not attempted to build nuclear weapons, had a fatwa against building nuclear weapons, repeatedly attempted to sign deals that would have included prevention of them building nuclear weapons, and even after facing existential threat have still not built nuclear weapons despite strong expert arguments that they could if they wanted to.
You want to condescendingly dismiss other people’s viewpoints as just uneducated “alt-media” “I did my own research” nonsense, and yet you’re not even demonstrating the capacity to see through the most basic of political rhetoric and are swallowing it down like it’s your gospel.