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sunnyside wrote:

Cpl Kendall wrote:

Mikey wrote: Iran probably looked at North Korea's constant extortion and figured "lets try it too".

I didn't write that

Cpl Kendall wrote: Oh you mean the stuff they do now with out nukes.

Precisely. My point is that with Iran it isn't only a matter of arguing that they might hypothetically do some stuff. They're already doing these things. Having nukes frees them to take it up a couple notches.

It's more basic than that: Iran is Persian, the others are Arabs. A great many things happen in the middle east because of tribe.

That could well be part of the issue behind why the other countries spaz about a nuclear Iran.

Do we get to hear how Obama is soft on security now? Don't be obtuse, US policy since the Soviets got nukes is to retalite over whelmingly in kind if nuked. if Obama doesn't do it he'll be taking a ride on the impeachment express.

Well for one I don't believe we have any laws requiring a president to glass any country that does anything against us with nukes. So unless there's one on the books I don't know about (really doubtful) you're just plain wrong about impeachment.

At any rate the issue is what they think Obama would do.

Still though I consider this a lower priority worry. Even if Obama wouldn't glass them, he would go to conventional war and probably authorize some selective nuking.

Oh boy, we get the old scare tactic of mobile nukes!

Or rather the old obvious tactic.

Now I don't think Iran would attack us with a nuke out of the blue. At least not so long as we'd be able to tie it back to them.

Rather they'd use the nukes as a threat while doing pretty much whatever they want in the middle east. I'd totally believe they'd use nukes before letting themselves be invaded.


On their side of things of course I imagine they're devided between people who think the country just wants peaceful nuclear power and thanks to the government run media likely see it increasingly as a source of national pride and would rather lose money on the whole deal as opposed to not getting it.

And other people who just want to achieve more parity with the US and to have the freedom to move much more overtly in regards to Israel and possibly in gaining some territory by absorbing neighboring regions with high Shia populations. And at the least not have to worry about the UN bothing them about executing gays and stuff like that.