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2005-01-04 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Steve 2005-01-04 11:20:01 AM|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 All this does is bring the terrible logic of The Three Conjectures that bit closer.

It seems increasingly likely that one of these weapons will find its way into the hands of an Islamist outfit. OBL recently got the green light for using nuclear weapons. Does anyone here expect them to hold back if they get one?

There seems to be too many unstable countries going after these weapons, and sooner or later one of them is going to get one and want to set it off.

It seems madness to me to attempt to acquire these weapons - they can't have enough bombs to destroy the US (let alone the delivery systems to get them there), so all this does is make those countries huge targets.

Perhaps the old Star Trek joke about Arabs is a premonition?

Posted by Tony (UK) 2005-01-04 1:30:06 PM|| 2005-01-04 1:30:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Me thinks that Syria got a boost from Saddam's WMD being smuggled into country prior to the invasion.

Posted by Captain America 2005-01-04 6:20:04 PM|| 2005-01-04 6:20:04 PM|| Front Page Top

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