Iran, Nukes, Diplomacy and other options (catch all thread 2007-2010)

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So the rationality of their actions is determined not by the actions themselves but by our response to them?

More importantly their ability to estimate and gauge our response before the action. A calculation of risk v. reward.

This reminds me of a game my kids like to play sometimes called let's see what we can get away with. It's a dangerous game. You have to find the line with out crossing it. To make things more difficult, the line moves. Sooner or later somebody steps across it and ends up in the corner or their room.

I do not think anyone would disagree that it is a dangerous game.


Further, I see Iran's 2003 conciliatory outreach to us, after we had just walloped Saddam's Army, as more evidence of Iran's ability to think and act rationally.