@RABEL222,
RABEL222 wrote:When we , the U.S., destroyed democracy in Iran we created a religious government and we are now paying the price of playing God.
Nonsense. It was hardly a case of the US sweeping in from nowhere and imposing the Shah on hapless Iranians from out of the blue.
I'm not saying we didn't go along with the coup and even help with it. We did.
But the coup had plenty of support among the same Iranian religious clerics who then later overthrew the Shah. And even among foreigners, the UK was more involved than the US was.
RABEL222 wrote:Why dont we just back off and let the two religious oriented governments, Iran and Israel, fight it out.
Does "backing off" mean not intervening if Israel gets the upper hand and starts crushing Iran? Or would there then suddenly be a reason to get involved and save Iran from Israel?
In any case, there are two reasons why we don't back off:
The first is that the US will never tolerate Iran having nuclear weapons, and that policy has nothing to do with Israel.
The second is that Israel is our friend and ally, and we help our friends and allies.