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I was presented this line of thinking by a friend about the whole mess with Iran right now. As I thought about it, it starts to make sense.....at least a little bit.
With Iran, the President is almost in a no-win situation. Here sits the Iranian leaders saying they have nuclear weapons, or the ability to make them, with the possible threat of using them. With that, we really have three options. We could 1) try diplomatically to impose sanctions on their nuclear program (tried and failed) 2) attempt to stop them from making them (which we are trying, and most likely failing - at least in the public eye. or 3) sit back and do nothing to stop them. I'll admit, since I along with the majority of people don't think they are much of a threat, if even a threat at all, option #3 seems like the most logical and best solution.
Problem is this, what if the Iranian leaders aren't bluffing. It's like watching the World Series of Poker re-runs on ESPN. Some players bluff when they have nothing. However, the most successful players, when they have a good hand, can play it so that they get you to think they're just trying to bluff you - then they take you for all they can get. What happens if that is what's happening with the nuclear question here?
If we do nothing, and it comes to light that Iran IS a threat and does launch an attack - there will be an enormous public outcry because we did nothing to stop them - even when they told the world they had the capability to do what they did.
Anyway, just thought I'd share my friends ideas to see what you all think.

I have a gmail account, but I hardly, if ever, use it for email. I use it for the chat feature to communicate with co-workers and other friends. I have found that I like it better than MSN Messenger because it saves your conversations for you for future reference.

This is probably the most frustrating part about all of this - is that we (the public) have no way of truly knowing what's really going on. We really only get information that other people want us to know - whether that info benefits President Bush or discredits President Bush - either way, we're missing a lot of details - which obvioulsy is a huge chunck of the story.

Guide, I completely agree with you in the fact that this war we're in right now certainly does make us vulnerable to other attacks right now - and maybe I'm wrong (hopefully not), but I just don't see them making an attack on us. But definately, we are extremely vulnerable.
I think our biggest mistake in this war is not giving a whole-hearted effort. It seems as though we thought we could just kind of walk in over there and everyone would throw down their weapons and surrender. Obviously, we underestimated them. And back to the bully analogy - that's when bullies always lose - when they underestimate the others. To stay at the top of anything, you have to have extreme confidence in yourself and in what you're doing - but if you're not careful, that confidence turns to arrogance, and therein starts your downfall. I think as a country and society as a whole, we may have crossed that line from confidence to arrogance.

I think this is a simple case of the Darwinian priciple of "Survival of the Fittest" - yes, we know that almost everyone has them - but we're not worried about North Korea or China or Brazil launching one at us - so why would we be worried about them? The only ones we're worried about are those countries we see as a threat of throwing one of those things our way. So, if we can get enough of our "allies" to see those countries as a threat, not only to us, but to them as well, then maybe we can eliminate one of our threats.
And everyone is going to keep producing them anyway...I don't think anyone wants to possibly be in the middle of future war and be sitting there saying "Wait, we followed the rules and don't have any nukes....why does everyone else have them?" Everybody either has them or wants them, but they don't want their "enemies" to have them - that's just human behavior. Everyone always wants to have the advantage.

Great posts!! I really enjoyed reading them...seeing that I am starting to wonder about some of the same things. I'm getting ready to finish up college and I'm into my major program (should be graduating with a Masters in about 2 years), and now of all times, I'm starting to think that this major isn't exactly for me. But where I'm already 24 years old, I hate to start over in a different major. But what has been really weighing on my mind is that I can keep going - I know there's really good money in my major - but will I be unhappy with my work situation a couple years into my career.
Anyway, thanks for the posts - they really helped get my mind going and thinking about what I should be doing.

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A voice of reason.....Thank you tackleberry!! 8)

That's a great article. I just got finished reading it, and I don't have anything to say but "Wow!" That really is an amazing, and extremely sad story.

I'll definately agree with juzamjedi here with these class suggestions. I am right now studying Accounting, but have taken classes in Finance, Marketing, and Business Law (we have briefly discussed contracts) - though I have never taken any Entrepreneurship classes - though they are offered here, so I probably should.
I have not gotten into the Real Estate business for myself yet, but I would like to as soon as I finish school. Anyway, these classes that I've taken have helped me understand so much about the Real Estate world in respect to financing transactions and the best way to do so for tax purposes and such. You are definately going down the right road with Finance, but do branch out a little, especially in Accounting because even though the classes are similiar, there are some very pertanent topics that Accounting hits that Finance won't.
Good Luck!!!