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The PLO pulled out of Beirut in the early 1980s after being given guarantees from the international community that the remaining Palestinian population, unarmed civilians, would be…

What if they hit US bases using 'plausibly deniable' cutouts? The Glorious Revolutionary Militia of country X, using Iranian built and supplied drones or missiles, blows up young A…

They just hit population centers in Israel with high explosives this week. Clearly if they had a nuke they would be able to deliver it.

I think austin-cheney's point is largely right. Iran has fought a series of proxy wars against Saudi, ever since the Islamic Revolution. The Iran-Iraq war was the first one, with I…

Can you clarify which part of the constitution is being ignored here?

Just because you didn't know something until 24 hours ago does not make it a myth.

I live in a major world city with considerable immigrant populations from many parts of the world, and saw some of the pro-Palestine demonstrations yesterday. There were numerous g…

I'm not sure you know much about Iran. They did spend a lot of the oil revenue on both education and developing their economy. Compare them perhaps to Saudi Arabia, a similar sized…

One way of looking at last week's ballistic missile attacks is that they were a way of demonstrating Iran's ability to retaliate in the wider region. If Ramat Gan is not safe, then…

> Where do you think they've got the weapons from? Ultimately, from the United States taxpayer. Who supply the Egyptian military government, who turn a small proportion over to the…

There's only 3 problems with this old claim. 1. You have to define 'Israel' quite carefully to make it work. Palestinians in East Jerusalem cannot vote in Israeli elections. Is Eas…

"Yes, we did lie. But in hindsight, our lie did not affect anyone's decision making. The truthful part by itself was enough to convince everyone who was convinced."

91 also happened in a brief period where Russia was holding back from supplying end-of-line military hardware to anyone who wanted to take a shot at the United States and its clien…

Compare military spending by Saudi Arabia, Israel, Egypt and the United States (only Middle East related) with Iranian military spending, over the four decades of Iran's shadow war…

Did you read the appendix? 85% of respondents have a college degree, with the actual proportion in the population being 28%. This survey is heavily weighted towards emigres and peo…

I think what you are missing is how vulnerable the United States and its allies are in the region. There are much much softer targets than Tel Aviv, many of which Iran has successf…

The problem with this argument is that the case for war with Iraq was repeatedly made as "Iraq has WMDs that they are willing and ready to use".

Yes, this was also said about Iraq in 1991.

The thing is, the United States is self sufficient in petroleum. But domestic prices will go up to reflect the effect on world supply. Arguably the same could happen given widespre…

> This is probably what happens when your government isn't very competent and you don't have mathematicians doing game theoretic simulations for you? Religious government or not, I…

It might actually be a good thing to get banned. Possibly it's in your interest not to continue to do business with companies like this, but on any given evening you might abandon …

You've invented gambling.

But most people clean their own toilets in their house.

Yes you are completely right. All the analysis is done for a game where one randomly chosen person with money gives one other randomly chosen person one dollar at each time step. S…