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>>>>>How many times did the US do this in the past century ?
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>>>>Call for the destruction of another country? Zero.
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>>>Not in so many words, but didn't the US call for destruction of communists (Cuba, vietnam, USSR)?
>>>I see little difference here.
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>>I see a vast difference.
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>>The US called for the destruction of the Communist REGIMES of Cuba (I don't see Viet Nam and USSR as analagous), not the total obliteration of the country.
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>>My opinion is that Iran wants either the conversion of every Israeli to Islam or the forced expulsion of every non-Muslim from Israel, or the death of every non-Muslim in Israel.
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>Isn't this more or less analagous?
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Yes, they are all variations on a theme. But the analogy I wanted to address was yours equating Iran attitude towards Israel and the US attitude towards Cuba. You "see little difference." I see the following difference.

The US wants to end the Communist regime in Cuba. If we can't do that we are NOT going to kill every Cuban Communist. Iran wants to end a Jewish state in Israel and WOULD (if they could) kill every Jewish Israeli in order to do so.

>>Perhaps being Jewish colors my view of Iran (of course it does), but if I'm wrong, what are the Iranian attitudes towards Israel?
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>We all know that. I don't think we have a disagreement here. But highlighting iran, is missplaced imo as virtually every country in the middle east calls for the same.
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>Walter,

Yes. But not every country in the Middle East is actively developing nuclear weapons