Comments on: Clinton on Nonproliferation

By: KMansfield

KMansfield — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:18:18 +0000

And lets not lose sight of who really has the nukes.

By: KMansfield

KMansfield — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:16:37 +0000

Quark1:”They can be brought in secretly disguised as other cargo and detonated in U.S. cities with devastating consequence”

I personally have no confidence that Israel wouldn't do this and attempt to pin the blame on Iran.
Iran has no history of unprovoked military belligerency against the US, and Israel has attacked us using false flag ops more than once. I can see Henry Kissinger standing on the Capital steps again saying “See how it feels to be attacked?”.

By: COACHEP » Blog Archive » Posts about Iran Nuclear Program as of October 21, 2009

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:14:52 +0000

[...] exercise is anything but a response to the ongoing tensions over Iran’s nuclear program. Clinton on Nonproliferation – washingtonindependent.com 10/21/2009 Barely an hour after word came from Vienna that an Iranian [...]

By: quark1

quark1 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:13:51 +0000

Several points that should be understood:
1) Israel will not allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons. It doesn’t matter what the U.S. President wants, it doesn’t matter what the U.S. public thinks (stupid polls), it doesn’t matter what the rest of the world thinks. Israel will not allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons.
2) The delivery date of Russian advanced anti-aircraft missiles to Iran is the deadline by which Israel must act. They will not risk being unsuccessful in a strike to take out the Iranian capability. They know they cannot depend on the U.S. to stop Iran’s development politically or militarily. (Diplomacy without the threat of potential military consequences doesn’t work. Negotiation from a position of power is always more successful than groveling, appealing to a “moral” sense, or empty threats.) When Israel strikes, it will be thorough and conclusive – they know they’ll only have one chance. They will most likely then need to divert their attention to stopping the retaliation by moving into Syria and Lebanon – and maybe other counties….
3) Israel doesn’t really have to worry about the U.S. entering the ensuing war from a strike on Iran. In response to the strike, Iran will close the Straits of Hormuz – and the U.S. will move to open them again.
4) Iran does not need an ICBM capability to deliver nuclear weapons to the United States. They can be brought in secretly disguised as other cargo and detonated in U.S. cities with devastating consequence. While the current regime is in power in Iran, it is not in the interest of the U.S. for Iran to achieve nuclear weapons capability. It does not matter that most of the Iranian people are good, rational, and civilized – their leaders are insane. Until the civilized people are in power in Iran, Iran is a threat to the rest of the world.

While it is far more pleasant to be naïve, it has never stopped brutal reality – sooner or later the sheep must run to the sheepdog for protection from the wolves, whether they like the sheepdog or not.

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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:12:02 +0000

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