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This sound like a good idea and I'm sure it makes anyone American absolutely brim with patriotic pride. It's also a completely idiotic thing to do. Creating malware takes a lot fewer resources than creating real weapons and the US and West in general is far more vulnerable to malware than Iran or most small countries due to the economy's greater mechanization. What happens when there is blowback?


Patriotic pride? Unless I've missed something about your train of thought here, AC/DC is still an Australian band and not from the US.


Not to mention that further tensions is not desired right now -- with Obama neck and neck with the Republican and Israel getting impatient and Iran getting offended, this could turn very nasty, very soon (and the west can ill afford another war in the middle-east with the current economy and gas prices).

I hope the regime fall, but it has to be internal or it won't stick.


"the west can ill afford another war in the middle-east with the current economy and gas prices"

"The west" isn't a monolith. Elites everywhere profit from war, simply because it first and foremost tightens control and keeps people busy.




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