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2004-12-11 Arabia

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Posted by Steve White 2004-12-11 12:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Does this mean Saudi Arabia will cancel delivery of the nuclear weapons being built by Pakistan?

Posted by trailing wife 2004-12-11 3:11:16 AM|| 2004-12-11 3:11:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Nah, this is just a front, cause everyone knows the one power in the area with WMD is the US. Just another street theater being set up do denounce the US. "Gee, they have to have them, because you are here". Hey, after we field tested two in Japan nearly sixty years ago, I think we've shown major restraint, particularly by Rantburg standards.

Posted by Don 2004-12-11 10:07:01 AM|| 2004-12-11 10:07:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Don, you forgot Israel....Sorry. I just realized Israel is on the Mediterranean, not the Gulf. Never mind. (One of many family jokes is that I'm geographically illiterate.)

Posted by trailing wife 2004-12-11 2:00:39 PM|| 2004-12-11 2:00:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#4

While such a move has all the appearances of progressive thinking, it is really just pure self-preservation. Given the inescapable level of internecine conflict inherent to the entire region, it would be nothing less than pure insanity for Islamic states in the Middle East to acquire nuclear capability. The region would be reduced a sheet of smoking glass in the time it takes to say, "Arab disunity."

Representative elected government should be a mandatory feature of any nation seeking to obtain nuclear technology. Without meeting the primary requirement of having a democratic process in place, no country should be allowed to develop WMDs.

Any who doubt this merely need to examine Pakistan. Not satisfied with proliferating nuclear technology to anyone with a fat bank account, this festering cesspool of terrorist indoctrination is in direct danger of having its nuclear arsenal fall into the hands of Islamic radicals who are actively undermining the state. Now magnify this several fold and the scope of risk involved with nuclear proliferation in the Middle East becomes apparent.

Iran's constant stream of threatening rhetoric should serve as an adequate example of what to expect from any other tinpot dictator or theocrat's pursuit of nuclear capability. That so few of the other major powers (i.e., Europe in general) do not seem to comprehend what sort of threat to regional and global security the possibility of Islamic nations obtaining nuclear weapons and WMDs in general, only increases the danger to all involved.

Posted by Zenster 2004-12-11 5:34:43 PM|| 2004-12-11 5:34:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 "That so few of the other major powers (i.e., Europe in general) do not seem to comprehend what sort of threat to regional and global security the possibility of Islamic nations obtaining nuclear weapons and WMDs in general, only increases the danger to all involved."

I've become convinced that sooner or later, by one means or another we are going to have to adopt a policy that **NO** Islamic nation, democratic or not, shall be allowed to possess nuclear weapons-- and be prepared to back that policy with force, unilaterally if necessary.

I have no idea how we would come to adopt such a policy; I fear that it will come after-- not before-- one of our own cities is incinerated.

Islam simply is not compatible with nuclear weaponry, PERIOD.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-12-11 5:46:40 PM|| 2004-12-11 5:46:40 PM|| Front Page Top

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