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2015-07-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

What can Iran gain by having a nuclear weapons program that threatens to destabilize security in the Middle East?

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-07-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Maybe it just want's some nukes to throw at the Sunis and Israel for like good times?

You know Allahu Akbar! Yeah!

Maybe fill an old freighter with some nukes and cruise down the US East Coast with scuba gear...

You know Death to America - Allahu Akbar!

It doesn't need to be formal Western advantage ideas...

Posted by 3dc 2015-07-18 00:38|| 2015-07-18 00:38|| Front Page Top

#2 I think Iran was clear when they said they wanted to nuke Israel and bring back some holy monkey they've been waiting for. I'm paraphrasing, I don't remember the Shia details.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-07-18 09:28|| 2015-07-18 09:28|| Front Page Top

#3 I've said it before: Wishful thinking is a piss poor strategy.

But especially when they tell us over and over again that they want us dead, it might be wise to take them at their word.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2015-07-18 12:37|| 2015-07-18 12:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Why do they think Iran gives a shit about "stability"?

Posted by charger 2015-07-18 13:15|| 2015-07-18 13:15|| Front Page Top

#5 trying to wake that hobo in the well

Posted by Frank G 2015-07-18 13:28|| 2015-07-18 13:28|| Front Page Top

#6 It's the "rational actor" mentality. It sort of worked during the Cold War. Not so much in the 1930s.

Posted by Pappy 2015-07-18 13:47|| 2015-07-18 13:47|| Front Page Top

#7 It is an old power game. You get a big I mean BIG club (nuke) and you intimidate, demanding respect. Local neighbors cower in fear. You interpret that as respect. So you go after your neighbors and you meet one that is not intimidated, so you go into a hissy fit, and you launch a nuke, and then your whole country turns into a glass Roentgen soupbowl and that is the end of your reign, and your people so excited about your nukes. And, ugly as that scenario is, problem solved itself.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-07-18 14:08|| 2015-07-18 14:08|| Front Page Top

#8 If the police in your neighborhood stopped policing I think it would be wise to get the biggest gun possible so if they never return to policing then you are safe. If they do return then you can out gun them.

Obama will not face a non-American threat to his power. He has backed out of the Middle East and support of Israel. He has welcomed the previous enemies of Iran and Cuba to accept his surrender. Iran is just taking full advantage of the worlds police force not policing. Obamaites have done the same in Detroit, Baltimore....

Posted by Airandee 2015-07-18 15:54|| 2015-07-18 15:54|| Front Page Top

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