Reply #17: Right, that sounds likely.

[Shaktimaan]

Israel wants America's approval to NUKE Iran. Yeah, that's probably what's going on. It sounds like the most rational assumption to make about this situation.

:sarcasm:

You do realize that even when Israel was in danger of being overrun during the Yom Kippur War there wasn't any talk of them deploying nuclear weapons, right? And that any full scale war Israel fights requires almost its entire population of army and reserve age men, essentially shutting down their entire economy for the duration of the war?

Seeing your political analysis on situations like this makes it much more clear how you are able to believe some of the other insanity I've seen you take as common knowledge. And I find it reassuring too. I get agitated when I read some of the things people think about this conflict, not because they're untrue, but because they require such a willful suspension of rational thought and critical thinking. But then they go and post about how they believe in alien abductions or how Israel is currently seeking America's permission to nuke Iran and I realize that they don't represent the bulk of society. No offense.