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Dubya Dubya III ?
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Strategists at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for devastating bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran’s nuclear sites as a “last resort” to block Teheran’s efforts to develop an atomic bomb.Central Command and Strategic Command planners are identifying targets, assessing weapon-loads and working on logistics for an operation, the Sunday Telegraph has learnt.
Remind me again why Americas nuclear arsenal is unquestionable when Irans “will not be tolerated”.
Remind me again which country has actually used nuclear weapons on someone else.
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this is really like 1939 and you sound like a Chaberlianian.
corrected spelling: Chamberlainian .
And the earlier existence of a politician called Chamberlain disqualifies me from being worried about this, how, exactly?
This has absolutely nothing to do with Chamberlain and/or appeasement/capitulation. This is principle pure and simple. The nuclear non-proliferation treaty serves not just to stop countries without, getting their hands on nuclear weapons technology but also serves to enforce the current status of the US as the pre-eminent global force. No other country has as many nuclear weapons, spends as much or has a large a military as the US. It needs this purely to maintain total military supremacy so that no country will step out of line (Project for the New American Century Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz et al.). The U.S. doesn’t mess with the current countries that already have these WMD’s because they know it only takes one to hit them to initiate complete armageddon, but other countries they push around with impunity.
The U.S. is already losing it’s grip in the far pacific rim with bases in S.Korea and Japan under threat and anti-us feeling running higher than ever in the rest of the region. And all this under the gaze of China which is limbering up in the wings
I also notice the article states “against Iran’s nuclear sites as a “last resort? to block Teheran’s efforts to develop an atomic bomb” as if it is already established fact that they are trying to create one. I don’t know if this is what the paper says or is “fact” from the Pentagon.
Yes, the USA was the first and thus far only nation to use nuclear weapons. Rather successfully, by the way. In light of this, if Ahmadinejad was a rational being, he might reconsider continually pissing us off. Since he is an irrational fanatic, this is unlikely, and will probably end with a number of mushroom clouds over Iran. We won’t wait forever for the Iranians to dump these lunatics they accept as their leaders.
The funny thing is, Ahmadinejad would not have been in power if it wasn’t for the gulf war(s). There was a growing movement with the young iranians towards democracy and westernization, stopped cold in its tracks with the invasion of Iraq. Right now, thanks to the example set by Saddam, they feel there’s no point at all in cooperating with the West – doing so won’t stop an invasion if the USA has plans to do so, so they might as well not bother. They feel the only way out of this is deterrence – the sooner they have the bomb, the sooner they can threaten to use it if/when invaded. Considering the attitude of the USA towards North Korea, they may very well be right.