Quote Originally Posted by Pannonian
See all the threats being made over Iran, and the uncompromising stance adopted by many Americans. Yesdachi remarked in another thread that there was no reason for the US to meet Iran anywhere in the middle, which is illustrative of the America the Great that is so absolutely certain of its moral high ground. If you're going to continue taking that attitude, you will lose all your remaining friends who have been willing to stick by you despite all that has happened, and all the cooperation you will get in the future will come purely from threats and bribes.
There is no middle compromise with Iran IMO. No nuclear weapons program, continue to try and develop one and we are at odds. No US ally should have and issue with that.

Our attitude with Iran or even an attack or war with Iran won’t cost us any friends (that you make it seam like we are already out of). The US is the economic driving force of the world, our “friends” can be as vocal about their opposition to our actions as they want but will continue to scratch our back because we are scratching theirs. And the thought that cooperation would only come from threats and bribes is just silly, cooperation will continue coming from payoffs and coercion just like it always has.