So, who even gives a flying f** if Iran gets the bomb?

[eridani]

Why would anybody sane give a rat's posterior whether or not Iran went nuclear, other than the obvious bad effect on proliferation? Since Bush has been doing everything he can to promote proliferation anyway, one more member of the nuclear club would be a drop in the bucket here.

We are, after all, talking about people who have not waged a single aggressive war since the Sassanid dynasty of the 6th or 7th century. They are completely surrounded by nuclear powers (Israel, Pakistan, India, China and Russia) two of which have come scarily close to the brink a couple of times already. Even if they broke a centuries-long tradition and used a nuclear weapon pre-emptively, they'd be obliterated.

Russia is still our most significant nuclear threat, not because they currently mean us any harm (though the neocons are working really hard to change that), but because their command and control systems have deteriorated so badly. Naturally, Bush has cut funds from the Nunn/Lugar Threat Reduction Act which was meant to help them deal with this problem. On the ground, there is no difference whatsoever between "Oopsie" and "Die Yankee scum".

[Swamp Rat]

1. Their neighbors?

:shrug:

[BrotherBuzz]

3. Two of their neighboring countries are occupied by the US military

I'm just saying. :shrug:

[eridani]

8. Their neighbors who have not been aggressively attacked by Persians

--for the last 1300 years?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

2. who?

well, israel for one

[lligrd]

6. Why? Other Neighboring Countries Have It, Thanks To Us

and if your answer includes the word "stable" or "sane", consider the fact that the Idiot in Chief has control over ours as we post.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

7. because they are arch enemies.

this is not too difficult to figure out.

[lligrd]

10. Today's Friends Are Tomorrows Enemies

Especially when Neocons make them. Why are Neocons so slow to figure that out?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

i tend to believe that they simply do not care.

neoconserative ideology is extremely short sighted. It has a preoccupation with the immediate at the expense of the future. They sincerely believe that if they do the "right" thing now, the rest will just work itself out.

[lligrd]

14. I Don't Think They Care About Anything But The Bottom Line

and the anything includes Israel, America, their own children/grandchildren or their so called friends.

[eridani]

12. Since when?

That a country is not under the US military bootheel makes it an enemy?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

18. ok, iran and israel are friends.

and up is down.

[eridani]

19. Oh., I thought you were talking about our country.

At any rate, Iran has done exactly jackshit to Israel or any other neighbor in the war of aggression departmenr.

[EFerrari]

4. Why do you hate fiction?

:shrug:

We're in a great deal of danger, imho, not from Iran or even Russia under Putin but from these cornered lunatic felons in the White House.

[lligrd]

5. Apparently Cheney Would

My guess is that somehow in his void mind, it would ruin his absurd desire to control Middle East oil.

[ThomWV]

9. Israel

Not that it matters to me.

[bananarepublican]

11. Isreal reportedly has over 650 nuclear warheads! Iran has the right to one or two don't you think?

[wellst0nev0ter]

13. As Long As There's MAD, I As An American Don't Really Care

Besides, we've been asking for nuclear armed nations anyway, with our contradictory actions against Eye-Rack and North Korea.

[GDAEx2]

15. I'm MORE concerned that Israel has it

[sendero]

16. This is just more..

... of our government doing Israel's bidding. Nothing new.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. 'Cause Americans have to be kept scared, don't you know?

Or else they might notice that their living standards have deteriorated, with necessities growing more expensive and cheap junk growing cheaper and junkier.

[rucky]

20. I give a fuck that ANYBODY has the bomb.

if we don't want nukes in the world, we know what we have to do.