West 'humiliating' Iran, says Hans Blix

YNet ^ | Feb. 26, 2007

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'Military threats are very dangerous'

You betcha!

Hiroshima, Japan, August 1945:

Nagasaki, Japan, August 1945:

Bushehr, Iran, February 2007:

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My sister has the right idea. She said "Why don't we just nuke them all?" I agree. Early one morning, unleash the full power of our nuclear arsenal and evaporate every Muslim country from Algeria to Indonesia. Anyone we miss who has the stupidity to run to the UN and complain, then just give them the second round.

Not all targets call for nukes, but adding at least a couple of nuclear strikes into the mix would at least provide a lesson for those not alive 62 years ago when two relatively small yield atomic warheads were used to really understand what the effects of those weapons are all about.

But note that even the use of the first did not end the war with Japan and that a second strike was indeed needed to conclude the matter. I'd also suggest that we should be prepared to deliver nuclear strikes to at least two non-strategic targets in addition to those requiring immediate tactical attention:

Qum and Mecca.

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"...People have their own pride whether you like them or don't,' he adds, urging use of economic incentives for better diplomacy..."

I would have loved to watch this asshole in action in 1938.

Better: 1918...

The great guns slay from a league away,
the death- bolts fly unseen,
And bellowing hill replies to hill,
machine to brute machine,
But still in the end when the long lines bend
and the battle hangs in doubt
They take to the steel in the same old way
that their fathers fought it out--
It is man to man and breast to breast
and eye to bloodshot eye
And the reach and twist of the thrusting wrist,
as it was in the days gone by!

Along the shaken hills the guns their drumming thunder roll--
But the keen blades thrill with the lust to kill that leaps from the slayer's soul!

For hand and heart and living steel,
one pulse of hate they feel.
Is your clan afraid of the naked blade?
Does it flinch from the bitter steel?
Perish your dreams of conquest then,
your swollen hopes and bold,
For empire dwells with the stabbing blade,
as it did in the days of old!

--Donald Robert Perry Marquis, Dreams & Dust, 1915