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2006-01-03 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Fred 2006-01-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If I had Sharon's ear, I would recommend a last ditch effort of detonating one of those 200 nuclear devices at the bottom of the Dead Sea! It would spell craps for the tourism interest of the area, but the shock the Iranians would get from this would persuade an immediate backdown from the "brinksmanship"!

Posted by smn 2006-01-03 03:29|| 2006-01-03 03:29|| Front Page Top

#2 SMN That would more like confirm and justify the Iranian drive for a nuke while at the same time give the UN ammo to go for thier disarmement. The lead the other day at Aljizz was about the BBC peice on the Isreali secret nuke program and its Hypocracy crapola.

They really cant do much more than start producing ballistic missles or preferably ballistic missle subs and early warnning enmass while at the same time letting the Arab world know that they consider all of the Arab world as one so wether Iran or terrorist nuke Isreal the responce would be the same across the board decimation of all major muslims religious cities first followed by population centers in order of population with the absolute goal of genocide. MAD works only when both sides face annialation in full, Isreal cant afford the perception that if one Arab nation annialates Isreal it will be Marytred alone in the responce while the Arab world will continue. The entire Arab world must be forced to share in the risk so they are forced to bring their radical elements under control if for no other reason than self preservation.

Personaly I think the Iranian nukes are more for defence like to scare off a military responce from the west and intimidate thier neighbors to do what they want like embargo punish the west. All the while they support terrorist actions against all who disagree with their goals mainly Isreal and the West who have to weigh responce against nuclear war. Iranians with nukes and thier current mentality will result in nuclear war it will just be a matter of time. They have tunnel vision with thier world domination goal they will really crank up the pressure and belligerence with nukes in storage and at some point the west will be forced into conflict, the longer that conflict is put off the more people will have to be killed and sacrifised in the conflict.

Posted by C-Low 2006-01-03 13:36|| 2006-01-03 13:36|| Front Page Top

#3 C-Low, good comment. Just one thing, though, take out the word "Arab" and replace with "Muslim".

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2006-01-03 14:34|| 2006-01-03 14:34|| Front Page Top

#4 C-Low,

I agree with most of your comment. Iran is most likely to use it's nukes for intimidating its neighbors. But I dont know that I would consider that a defensive use, rather aggressive as in passive-aggressive. And it is highly probably.

In response to this threat, we should consider a nuclear attack-only defence pact providing for nuclear response by the U. S. with all non-nuclear states within the range of Iranian nukes.

I also don't know that I would want to depend on Iranian weapon security from preventing a device from falling into terrorist hands, whether stolen or "lent". This is a much lower probability event, but with much more serious consequences for the U. S. There is too great a chance that a combination of wackos in the chain of control will redirect a device. Defence against this is much tougher, but I suggest we tell Iran publicly at the U. N. that if we suffer a nuclear attack from terrorists we will consider it to have originated in Iran and repsond accordingly. The sooner we tell the world, the better

The only thing we can affirmatively do is accelerate regime change in Iran.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-01-03 14:58|| 2006-01-03 14:58|| Front Page Top

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