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The week's question
In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Umm 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: The strategy,...is working
Date: 03/17/26 2:53 PM
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"That's the point, right? We're "degrading" nearly all of Iran's conventional military capabilities...but that doesn't affect their nuclear threat. We're not doing anything that will materially affect their ability to develop a nuclear weapon after the war, from where they were right before the war. We had destroyed their enrichment program back in June ("obliterated" was the word), but this war doesn't create any obstacles to them restarting the program at a future date that didn't exist before the war. The same is generally true of their conventional military capabilities and their ballistic missile programs - they can always be rebuilt, and indeed Iran had almost completely replenished their ballistic missile inventory within about six months after much of it was destroyed by the 12 Day war." - Albaby

Maybe we need someone to come up with a way to have Iran voluntarily give up their nuclear weapons program in exchange for something else. Of course, it would have to have a rigorous inspection program attached to it to make sure Iran is not cheating. Maybe we could get all of the European powers plus Russia to sign off on such an agreement.

Oh wait, we already had that, but some idiot president who always thinks he can negotiate better deals (but never seems to be able to actually do so) came in a broke that agreement.
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