Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Iran and WMDs!


The recent issue of the Atlantic , the talk has been Iran and the nuclear war. Off course the first thought that comes to mind is "Abandon SHIP....Abandon!" Sadly there is really no where to run to after the abandoning. The world is a mess, even the soap operas can't seem to catch up. Tres Sad.
More importantly and scary is the question of a nuclear Iran. Questions rise- will Israel finally bomb Iran? If they do, where are they going to stop to refuel? Saudi Arabia? Iraq? Jordan?
Lately, it is Iran in the hot waters. Before Iraq was it! Now that the US is a bit wishy washy about being on the band wagon to bomb Iran, Israel might be alone on the bombing.
But there is an oversight on the leaders part. While you can certainly depend on the idiocy of Iran leadership, you can also be sure they are not stupid. Idiocy and stupidity might be in the same class, but the two are not synonymous at times. They can be mutually exclusive.
The leaders idiocy is in their lack of perception in what the future potentially holds. Ahmadinejad has a view of magnanimity that only belongs to lunatics. ( For all he had done and said, he will join leaders like Mugabe, and Quadafi). For a leader to think that he can threaten a country that has the protection of the US, and its allies- that borders to lunacy. In one word, the future of Iran and its people could be : BOOM!
However, it cannot be assumed that they are stupid. Ahmadinejad and Khomeini are not going to keep antagonizing the West thinking that there are no consequences. Having WMDs is not going to help Iran eliminate its enemies. The only thing to come out of this is probably the MDD which seem to have had some valuable results. If Iran uses their weapons, then there is a lot of BOOM that is going to be going around, and Iran is not going to be the only victim.
There is also the fact that a couple of the WMDs are pointed at Iran. So Ahmadinejad is not goint to jump head first into the idea of bombing Israel, without considering the idea there are other countries that have more WMDs including Israel, and they are waiting to launch them the minute that Iran goes crazy. Considering all this, even Khomeini in his supreme power will think twice before bombing any country.

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