I have the power to gouge someone's eyes. Is it reasonable for me to use that power?

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I don’t know. It depends what you want to achieve.

It is reasonable for US to bomb fordow in regards to what they want to achieve

Then, by your reasoning, it is reasonable for me to claim that you will use your eyes to pinpoint me with a handgun and shoot me or someone else, the instant you develop a handgun (from which you are only two weeks away!) and proceed to gouge out your eyes so to avoid this aggression from you. I could then proudly congratulate myself for keeping the world safe from gun violence from a rogue aggressor like you.

The only point in your favor would be a history of aggression or clear aggressive intent. The tendency to initiate conflicts with weapons. It all hinges on that. And neither the U.S. nor Israel ever demonstrated successfully, never made a case, for why this was true. They just assumed it as a snuck premise.

Further, the Constitution forbids this kind of action from being done without an official declaration of war from Congress, as it is classified in the originally intended language as an act of war. If you have a standard that supersedes the Constitution, which I believe I do, it had better be consistent. The Natural Law provides such a standard. Consent. The American people did not consent to this use of their money.

No. That’s not my reasoning. What do you hope to achieve from gouging someone eyes? What would be the consequences for you for acting like that?

US wants to achieve Iran which is unthreatening to it. Bombing their nuclear sites seems reasonable strategy for achieving that. We yet to see if the situation won’t escalate in a bad way. For now, it seems like Iran doesn’t have the capacity to retaliate and nor its allies want to.