[risk]

These states are just insane. Letting them arm is like handing scissors to a violent inmate of an insane asylum. We can't use MAD with them, especially given the potential for anonymous terror. MAD assumes human reasoning.

[rip033]

Your correct. MAD won't work. MAD would be even more dangerous with IRAN then it was during the Cold War. The Soviets had an established government that operated the majority of the time in the open. When they supported a communist revolution in some country they publicized it. IRAN does most of their foreign policy through shady networks and third parties. Which they do not have total control of which is the problem.