The same thing goes for North Korea; if the US tries to move against them they will roast South Korea in nuclear fire. Nukes are very good deterrents no matter who you’re facing off against.

Thank you for once again showing the paucity of your arguments, by resorting to personal attacks.
It’s not that Ahmadinejad is so great, it’s just that I choose not to join the mindless propagandizers and their victims.

If you like Ahmadinejad so much and feel so compeled to defend such a regime, then please PLEASE by ALL MEANS renounce your citizenship and leave, I am sure you will be happy in Iran.

Commenting on the article by Mr. Easterbrook:

The conclusions are reasonable, but some of the premises are off:

(1) Ahmadinejad has allegedly said “wipe Israel off the face of the earth”, but that is just more Zionist/Western propaganda. Check Wikipedia, and Juan Cole. Also, he is said to be a Holocaust denier, but really, he asked questions about the Holocaust. For most people, there is a difference. Basically, he does not seem like an anti-Semite, only an anti-Zionist. There is a difference, but the Zionist propaganda has them the same.

(2) Ahmadinejad has predicted the demise of the Zionist regime in Israel, that is, Israel becomes simply another country, not a Jewish (apartheid) country. There are quite a few sensible, intelligent people throughout the world who also predict this. Moreover, it appears to be a just solution to the problem. Ahmadinejad has called for a vote of Israelis and Palestinians as to whether they want the one- or two-state solutions. At any rate, none of this makes a “dull-witted anti-Semite Mahmoud Ahmadinejad”.

(3) Ahmadinejad did a good job of upstaging Obama’s nuclear proliferation summit with his own, clearly pointing out to the world the contradictions of the US leading nuclear disarmament.

(4) Maybe the Islamic leaders of Iran really do feel constrained by the Koran, not to make nuclear weapons. Maybe they can construe the Koran to allow them to create the possibility of making a nuclear weapon, as a deterrent to US and/or Israel attack. Really, that could save thousands, maybe millions, of lives. I don’t see that any Westerner really knows. At least, Iran sounds a lot more moral than US/Israel threatening that everything is on the table (including nuking Iran).

(5) Even our intelligence agencies agree that Iran is not presently
constructing a nuclear weapon.

(6) Clearly US/West/Israel leaders want hegemony over the Middle East, and
Iran has the last leaders standing in their way.

(7) It appears that the Iranian government is simply out-smarting all the big (headed) brains of the US and Israel. If Iranian leaders are dimwits, what are ours?

All I can think, concerning the proforma Iran/Ayatollah/Ahmadinejad bashing, that its purpose is to give political cover for a perfectly rational analysis of the real consequences if Iran is building a bomb. Nice going! I’m starting to get some of my faith back in Reuters.

Did the US destroy all of it’s arms Sept 10, 2001, and then rebuild them all Sept 12?

Did England not have them when its subways were attacked?

Did India not have them when Mumbai was attacked?

Does Pakistan not have them when insurgents from Afghanistan cross the border?

Does Isreal not have them when Hamas attacks?

Thanks

Indeed, and a Monkey will fly out of my ass at any moment….