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Originally Posted by Pookie

Most small countries can be annihilated with nuclear weapons. My point was that nobody IS threatening to annihilate them.

hello spookie (if you see this)

i know i promised to reply sooner but eh! i was out of town.

anyway, i read the fisk article and i've been thinking about it and okay: iran is not going to nuke israel today. true dat. and all that "iran must stop" is probably just hysteria.

HOWEVER

there is a logic underneath the hysteria: having nukes would turn iran into the dominant power in the region. all sorts of regimes from iraq and saudi arabia all the way to israel would cack themselves in fear. which is why the west doesn't want that-- the west basically wants to keep propping up the gulf monarchies & keep the balance of power more or less where it is.

change the balance of power and really, but really-- who knows what could happen? iran smuggling nukes via syria, right at israel's doorstep? totally possible, like the famous cuban missile crisis.

nobody likes to have a knife at their throat, and the farther ahead you can prevent said knife to reach your throat the better. why wait when the blade is starting to push the skin.

if i were israel, i'd bomb iran too.