Germany had arguably the strongest military in Europe and was aggressively acquiring territory Austria, Czechoslovakia, etc. Iran is at best a second rate power with no nuclear capability.

Are they going to attack the strongest nation militarily on earth? It would be suicide. For Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon would be bad but not the end of the world. Once again Podhoretz and the cabal of cretins running this country into the ground are on a quest of dead American soldiers and Iranian civilians to enrich the warprofiteers and neo-convict ideals.

If the Fraiddycrats I mean Democrats don’t stand these fools down, I am afraid that we will be drug into a Preventitive war again as bad or worse that Iraq, and thousands of American troops will die in vain and hundreds of thousand Iranian civilians will be slaughtered.

While a nuclear capable Iran will not attack the U.S. directly, there is a substantial likelyhood that it would attack us or someone else through a 3rd party terrorist organization.

Hezbollah is the clear and obvious example. From Wikipedia … “Hezbollah first emerged during the Lebanese Civil War as a militia of Shia followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini, trained, organized and funded by a contingent of Iranian Revolutionary Guards.[8] Hezbollah’s three main goals are to: Eradicate Western colonialism in Lebanon, bring to justice of those who committed atrocities during the war (specifically the Phalangists), and establish an Islamic government in Lebanon”

Now remember the dead marines in Beruit.

The source of a nuclear attack from Iran will be obvious to those in the know, but will be unprovable in the Western world and completely denied in the Islamic world. Hence, any retaliation will likely spark even more violence than we can imagine. Moreover, there also remains a high likelihood of a rogue element within Iran transferring bomb knowledge to a third party hostile to U.S. interests. Khan, the father of the Pakistan bomb, is a good example.

For these reasons, it is absolutely correct to say that Iran should not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons.

What’s more, these same arguments should and do apply to both North Korea and Pakistan. Currently, we have a favorable government in Pakistan, but we are only one coup away from disaster.

This is not to say that we should bomb and invade Iran, there are simply so many other options that we need to evaluate before considering to take that drastic step.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=11551

“Todd: Nuclear weapons are more frightening when they are unevenly distributed. Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki because the United States alone had them. But they were not used during the U.S.-Soviet Cold War. Only when India and Pakistan both possessed nuclear weapons did they sit down to negotiate peace. Only Israel has nuclear weapons in the Middle East, and China is the only nuclear power in East Asia, so if Iran and Japan come to possess them under certain conditions, the distribution would be more balanced and stable.”

Put Podhoretz out of his misery.

Perhaps we should call it Niwdog’s Law (since that’s Godwin spelled backwards)…?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MBzLTjVMhY

Comment by NeoTheta — October 30, 2007 @ 6:22 pm

His stance on Privatization makes me nervous. His antiwar and Constitutional ideas are good. Probably better than Hillary, but not by much.

It is less silly than arguing that racist apartheid Israel is a “democracy”.

Comment by pete — October 30, 2007 @ 3:57 pm

pete, You get right to the point. This “Dumbing Down” takes a myriad of forms:

1) Hormones in meat

2) Pesticides in Vegetables

3) Nutrasweet/Aspartame

4) Popular media

5) Fear

6) Modern education

7) Collapse of Dollar

8) Organized Religion

9) Republicanism

I have come to believe that “taking over” makes “smart” people “stupid”.

Comment by Keltoi — October 30, 2007 @ 2:48 pm

Roosevelt was going to drop them in Tokyo Harbor or in the Pacific as a warning. Crazies decided it was better to kill 200,000 innocents with no warning. Truman was a tool, just like Bush.

Now, Pod-Whore-Its is basically in need of some Gingko Biloba or Hydergine. This fart is so senile, it smells like mothballs even watching him on a computer screen.