What to do with a nuclear Iran?

[Watchman]

The USA is, I would argue, less bellicose and interventionist than have been most of the other "great powers" of history.

The Latin Americans might dispute this. It could also be argued that the US simply missed the opportunity - by the time it could start thinking about throwing its weight around, the globe was already largely divvied up between the colonial empires which were for the most part plain too big to mess with; and after they crumbled, it was all Cold War games.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

The Latin Americans might dispute this. It could also be argued that the US simply missed the opportunity - by the time it could start thinking about throwing its weight around, the globe was already largely divvied up between the colonial empires which were for the most part plain too big to mess with; and after they crumbled, it was all Cold War games.

Watch:

My next sentence was an acknowledgement of our efforts in Lat Am and globally since 1945. I said "LESS" bellicose -- which doesn't mean we weren't aggressive and opportunistic on several occasions. But even at the time, we had members of our own military decrying the wars for United Fruit.

Would we have been just as aggressive/acquisitive had we not gotten started a few hundred years later than the other Western powers? Impossible to say. I'd HOPE we'd have done better than that, but humans being humans I cannot be certain.