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2012-06-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Did Israel blow up Syrian nerve gas plant in 2007?

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Posted by Steve White 2012-06-16 00:20|| || Front Page|| [16 views ] Top

#1 There is little doubt that an attack against Israel from foreign soil using Chem/Bio armed SCUD rockets would prompt an immediate nuclear retaliation.

Posted by Besoeker 2012-06-16 06:49|| 2012-06-16 06:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Hmmm, Iran, Syria, North Korea (instructing Hezzies and Ham_asses) sounds like an axis of evil to me. How about you?

Posted by AlanC 2012-06-16 08:32|| 2012-06-16 08:32|| Front Page Top

#3 besoeker.
Against who? Whom? Whatever.
That's the thing with proliferated wmd. You might have an idea who made them--three years earlier, say--and maybe even the provenance to the actor who set them off in your cities.
While I might be sympathetic to the Third Conjecture--see Wretchard--if things get bad enough and we nuke everybody, there's probably a limit. If we don't nuke everybody because whatever it was isn't bad enough to make us go nuts--Third Conjecture--we have to choose whether and who.
And "who" is the question.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2012-06-16 10:13|| 2012-06-16 10:13|| Front Page Top

#4 start with Iran.

Posted by bman 2012-06-16 11:09|| 2012-06-16 11:09|| Front Page Top

#5 bman. If we go nuts--Third Conjecture--we won't "start with" Iran. It will be ToT.
We didn't go nuke ToT aftr 9-11. Nor did Russia after Beslan.
Suppose we have a Beslan including mustard gas. Five hundred dead kids. Would there be the political will to go nuts? After the second? The third...?

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2012-06-16 12:38|| 2012-06-16 12:38|| Front Page Top

#6 I'd go with Captain Renault

Posted by European Conservative 2012-06-16 14:12|| 2012-06-16 14:12|| Front Page Top

#7 I didn't want to say anything but the Juices get blamed for too much stuff already, so I confess... I was me. And Frank.

Posted by SteveS 2012-06-16 14:19|| 2012-06-16 14:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Ssshhhhh

Posted by Frank G 2012-06-16 14:32|| 2012-06-16 14:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Don't leave me out, guys.

I confess too.

Posted by Barbara 2012-06-16 16:13|| 2012-06-16 16:13|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm the power behind Fred's throne, BWHA-HA-HA-HA...

Posted by Steve White 2012-06-16 16:38|| 2012-06-16 16:38|| Front Page Top

#11 I wouldn't exclude Insh'alha maintence or safety practices, either.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2012-06-16 19:19|| 2012-06-16 19:19|| Front Page Top

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