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| Tolerance of Iran’s nuke program spurs neighbors to pursue their own | |
| 2004-03-18 | |
| From Geostrategy-Direct... Iran’s success in flouting the will of the international community by continuing its nuclear weapons program is giving similar ideas to several countries in the Middle East, including Egypt and Saudi Arabia. I want one, too....
That way they can assure their annhilation is complete. Hell, they are all neighbors so a missile flight is only a few minutes. "If Iran joins Israel as a de facto nuclear-weapon state, with three other nuclear-weapon states nearby - Russia, India and Pakistan - it is very unlikely that other nations in the vicinity will be able to resist launching or accelerating their own nuclear weapons programs," stated a report. "It is not at all inconceivable that a Middle East with four, five or six nuclear-weapon states, including Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, will be the reality of the early 21st Century," stated the report authored by Kenneth Weisbode of the Atlantic Council and James Goodby of the Brookings Institution. In October 2003, Saudi Arabia concluded a nuclear cooperation accord with Pakistan, according to Western intelligence and Israeli officials. The accord calls for Islamabad to provide a nuclear umbrella over the Arabian Peninsula as part of a new Saudi strategy that seeks to decrease its dependence on the United States. Decrease their dependence upon the US in favor of Pakistan? There is some brilliant strategic thinking. Analysts said Pakistan could upgrade the Saudi arsenal of up to 60 Chinese-origin CSS-2 Dong Feng 3A ballistic missiles secretly bought in the mid-1980s. The missiles have nuclear capability and have a range of up to 3,000 kilometers. What’s worse is that the regimes of Egypt and Saudi Arabia are vulnerable to a hostile Islamic takeover. Understatement of the week. This gives a nuclear Egypt or Saudi Arabia an even more menacing aspect, the analysts warn. If the world is going to be dependendant upon ME oil, we better develop some techniques for oil production in radioactively hot areas. These guys are mad. Mo in Libya may have been daffy, but he saw the handwriting on the wall and adapted to the new reality. I see pilgrimages to Mecca with people in radiation suits, if there is anyone left over there. | |
| Posted by:Alaska Paul |
| #3 If the Iranian mullahs or Bashar Assad fall, this mindset can only grow stronger among those regimes that remain. The trick is to step up the pressure a notch or two.... B-A-R----That is the right idea. We have been wildly successful in the WoT. 1. Sammy is jugged and the Iraqi Baathists have been booted out. 2. Sammys money for attacking Israel is dried up. 3. Sammys oil spigot to Syria is off. 4. Afghanistan is slowly being improved 5. Libya has renounced WMD and is actually cleaning up its act. 6. Kimmie is making noise, but he is on the defensive. 7. Al Q is split into smaller pieces and is on the defensive. Unfortunate the LLL and the press is spinning this into the Disaster of the Century, and an asshat in Spain gave away his farm. The LLL needs a smackdown as they are trying to disrup the war effort. The only time I see that happening is after the Nov election, if Bush gets reelected. Al Q is on the ropes, and all they can do in Iraq is to blow up civilians. In Europe they boom trains. If Europe gets agressive and kicks some ass then al Q is finished. If they do not, it makes our job twice as hard and causes more casualties for us, which is a crime. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-3-18 2:28:23 PM |
| #2 Mo in Libya may have been daffy, but he saw the handwriting on the wall and adapted to the new reality. If the Iranian mullahs or Bashar Assad fall, this mindset can only grow stronger among those regimes that remain. The trick is to step up the pressure a notch or two.... |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-3-18 12:23:04 PM |
| #1 looks like UN tollerance over the past decades has caused half the bloody world to get into the WMD club. I see the need for a new weapon for America,i once read about metastablised spin Hydrogen bomb or something like that.It was said to be as or if not more power full then a normal Nuke but have no fallout or radiation effects.Don't know what happened to it,maybe it went into the black or was just conjecture among weapons scientists at the time. I don't know just seems like nukes are getting abit commen place now,everyone an thier gran owns them.a spaced based laser constellation of satilites would be a pretty awesome weapon system.Zaping planes,tanks ,people and boats and shit from high in space |
| Posted by: Jon Shep U.K 2004-3-18 11:44:50 AM |