“Let’s face it — we lived with a nuclear Soviet Union, we’ve lived with a nuclear China, and we’re living with nuclear powers as well,” Abizaid told an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Containment works only with rational leaders of nation-states. The USSR was not willing to endure the vaporization of Moscow in exchange for the incineration of Washington.
The zealous apocalyptists in charge of Iran's mullocracy, by comparison, wish to hasten the re-appearance of the Twelfth Imam; and this can best be accomplished through a nuclear exchange.
How does one "contain" fanatics who think the death of many millions would be a truly wonderful thing?
From my reading up on Iran, only a very few in Iran's leadership circles believes this to be true.
As proof it was said, these other leaders are the ones who forced their President (kook) to back down in the controversy over the captured British soldiers. They did not want to risk a confrontation with Britain, knowing the USA would join in also on the attack.
It is simply astonishing to me that an American general does not even consider this point when he says “we can live with a nuclear Iran”.
Lemme guess, this guy is a Clinton general.
Honestly, I simply cannot grasp how dumb and blind these people are.