""That gets you 5 more NYT bashings. I think you have like 15 in credit now.""
thanks,smurph...i`m cashing in some chips in this thread...
the big push from the left is starting, to thwart any action to stop iran’s manhattan project.....in the n.y.t`s,m.i.t. political science professor barry r. posen argues that iran is a rational actor, on the way to his conclusion that "We Can Live With a Nuclear Iran".
""Iranian nuclear weapons could be put to three dangerous purposes: Iran could give them to terrorists; it could use them to blackmail other states; or it could engage in other kinds of aggressive behavior on the assumption that no one, not even the United States, would accept the risk of trying to invade a nuclear state or to destroy it from the air. The first two threats are improbable and the third is manageable.
Would Iran give nuclear weapons to terrorists? We know that Tehran has given other kinds of weapons to terrorists and aligned itself with terrorist organizations, like Hezbollah in Lebanon. But to threaten, much less carry out, a nuclear attack on a nuclear power is to become a nuclear target.
Anyone who attacks the United States with nuclear weapons will be attacked with many, many more nuclear weapons. Israel almost certainly has the same policy. If a terrorist group used one of Iran’s nuclear weapons, Iran would have to worry that the victim would discover the weapon’s origin and visit a terrible revenge on Iran. No country is likely to turn the means to its own annihilation over to an uncontrolled entity""
lol.....
the times op ed makes the cardinal sin of all extreme liberals...they are assuming that the other side is going to play by their rules and are looking at the world thru the same rose colored blinders that they are. ......
thanks,smurph...i`m cashing in some chips in this thread...
the big push from the left is starting, to thwart any action to stop iran’s manhattan project.....in the n.y.t`s,m.i.t. political science professor barry r. posen argues that iran is a rational actor, on the way to his conclusion that "We Can Live With a Nuclear Iran".
""Iranian nuclear weapons could be put to three dangerous purposes: Iran could give them to terrorists; it could use them to blackmail other states; or it could engage in other kinds of aggressive behavior on the assumption that no one, not even the United States, would accept the risk of trying to invade a nuclear state or to destroy it from the air. The first two threats are improbable and the third is manageable.
Would Iran give nuclear weapons to terrorists? We know that Tehran has given other kinds of weapons to terrorists and aligned itself with terrorist organizations, like Hezbollah in Lebanon. But to threaten, much less carry out, a nuclear attack on a nuclear power is to become a nuclear target.
Anyone who attacks the United States with nuclear weapons will be attacked with many, many more nuclear weapons. Israel almost certainly has the same policy. If a terrorist group used one of Iran’s nuclear weapons, Iran would have to worry that the victim would discover the weapon’s origin and visit a terrible revenge on Iran. No country is likely to turn the means to its own annihilation over to an uncontrolled entity""
lol.....
the times op ed makes the cardinal sin of all extreme liberals...they are assuming that the other side is going to play by their rules and are looking at the world thru the same rose colored blinders that they are. ......
