Posted on 06/27/2012 11:11:56 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Of course, it is easy to understand why Israel wants to remain the sole nuclear power in the region and why it is willing to use force to secure that status. In 1981, Israel bombed Iraq to prevent a challenge to its nuclear monopoly. It did the same to Syria in 2007 and is now considering similar action against Iran.
If it is easy to understand, it should be equally easy to state: Israel's desire for nuclear weapons may be described by two dates, and they are not 1981 and 2007, but 1967 and 1973. Israel needs an equalizer because she has faced more than existential threats but actual wars; Iran does not and has not.
Anyone using the phrase "would be" in international analysis is by definition speculating. Stating that a nation's arms "would be" safe because other nations' arms have been in the past led an awful lot of sober commentators to insist that Hitler was bluffing. The cost of that mistake is also "easy to understand".
I think Swervie had the trebuchet.
Can easily get one’s self lost at that site.
Thanks nickcarraway.
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Well, we can drop a few off over there right away... :)
Negative 200 IQ.
“Israel’s regional nuclear monopoly, which has proved remarkably durable for the past four decades, has long fueled instability in the Middle East. In no other region of the world does a lone, unchecked nuclear state exist. It is Israel’s nuclear arsenal, not Iran’s desire for one, that has contributed most to the current crisis. Power, after all, begs to be balanced. What is surprising about the Israeli case is that it has taken so long for a potential balancer to emerge.”
Maybe because Israel has never tested a nuclear bomb? Gosh. That’s why the ME is so f@#$ed up./s
Well, this was published in "Foreign Affairs" magazine, so it shouldn't really be a big surprise.
Mark
Tell me about it, amigo!
Yeah, I was probably being generous to this numb-skull. He could have a series of strokes and be more intelligent than he is now.
Where do these authors come up with that crap?
There has never been a "a full-scale war between two" states of any kind.
For that matter if Iran does NOT go nuclear, there will never be a "a full-scale war between" Iran and Israel either.
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