Posted on 03/10/2009 10:14:21 AM PDT by Fennie
If and when Iran gets nuclear weapons it would set off a global nightmare.
Most obviously, Iran could use nuclear arms to attack Israel. It's easy to say that Iran's leaders would be cautious, but what if ideology, error, or an extremist faction decides to wipe the Jewish state off the map? Even a 10-percent chance of nuclear holocaust is terrifying.
And if Israel decides its existence is at risk, it would launch a preemptive attack that would also produce a big crisis.
Once Iran has nuclear weapons, every Arab state, with the exception of Iran's ally Syria, would also be imperiled. Those countries would beg for U.S. protection. But could they depend on America, under the Barack Obama administration, to go to war - especially a nuclear one - to shield them?
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There is no doubt in my mind that they will inevitability level a nuclear attack against Israel. Not a matter of if, but of when.
They’ll hit the US first. Take us out and they’ll remove the big brother from protecting Israel. Not to mention the whole “God protecting Israel” thing...
To be honest, then we are at thier mercy. Sting was right, the Russians did love thier children too ... However, this bunch is a whole other story, if they get a nuke (and they are very close or may have it already) it will inevitably be used for the sheer joy of it (their sick joy of course).
I guess our plan is to sit back and try and impose useless sanctions and jaw bone them until they succeed. I wonder if anybody in the Government has figured out the Iranian game plan. Delay....Delay....Delay.
It’s Bush’s fault for not invading Iran.....at least that’s what Dems will probably say...
They’d probably blow themselves up by accident.
Sting is a moron. It didn't matter if the Russians loved their children.
What mattered was if the Russians loved OUR children.
They didn't. And the only thing stopping those Commie nut cases from nuking us was was the righteous fear of their entire rathole nation going up in a nuclear fireball in response.
With that being said, you're quite correct about the mullahs running Iran. They don't give a frogs watertight bunghole about ANYONES kids, least of all their own.
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Iran could not use one Nuclear weapon. They would be destroyed!
I wonder if anybody in the Government has figured out the Iranian game plan.
It’s the 4th quarter,Iran has the ball, they are driving and Obama keeps calling timeout so the Iranians have enough clock to score.
The better word is "when".
Iran's goal is not to use the nuke, but to have nukes as a demonstration of national and Shiite ascendency in the Middle East and Muslim world.
They still have to deliver a nuke either by boat or missile. Both can be stopped by our technology.
The goal posts of History.
I would say they would do a Middle East version of Pearl Harbor, they would wait for a time and place where as many of our ships that beint he US if not Israel, planes or personnel are concentrated and then do a suicide-nuke.
I would not be surprised if Iran was to even go so far as to do it in Afghanistan.
The real answer is that Iran will become more assertive, militarily and economically. They will be freer to engage in conventional warfare and regional bullying.
The mullahs are concerned about their own wrinkly hides. Let ‘em have their nuke. And let ‘em know in no uncertain terms that their hides will burned with nuclear fire if they ever dare try to use it.
I’m sick and tired of the US having to step up over and over again when the people really in peril don’t try and take care of their own business.
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Nobody really knows what they'll do, but no one with any brains believes with any conviction that they would be have more or less rationally in the way the Soviets did.
The earlier poster who objected to the comment about the Russians loving their children being irrelevant was wrong. Believing that the US would massively retaliate if they used nuclear weapons (even indirectly), they were not willing to see their own families destroyed. The Russians, at least as officially atheist Marxists, did not have any hope of achieving paradise by having the world blown up.
One cannot thus argue concerning the Iranian mullahs!
And a single nuke on Israel would prompt the same response.
So Iran kills 1000’s in Israel..then what? They have nothing left and are promptly decimated.
A single nuke is not an arsenal. It's just one BIG bomb. One shot. If anyhting with would be used to cause massive upheaval in the ME while at the same time resulting in unprecedented action against Iran.
I think even Russia and China would raise some eyebrows if Iran actually used a nuke.
Yep.
Let me say it another way. If Iran used a Nuclear weapon they would be destroyed!
It will be Bush’s fault. He had time to do something and he didn’t. Also knowing that Obama would become the next president should have made him more inclined to let Israel do what is needed and/or provide support.
Syria is a quite small country in area. Don’t know how any nuclear explosion would not drop some dirty air over them.
a nuke strike on Israel would bring out celebrations on many college campuses and cities like Dearborn and Tulsa
Tulsa, OK?
Been there many times, am obviously Jewish, never had a problem.
“It’s the 4th quarter,Iran has the ball, they are driving and Obama keeps calling timeout so the Iranians have enough clock to score.”
To be fair, time-out has been being called for years now. I think the region must be already adjusting to the reality of a nuclear Iran. Saudi Arabia is the next logical candidate to want their own nukes, from what I have read.
its somewhere in Oklahoma where there is a cluster of Muslims
It would take thousands of nukes to successfully destroy our ability to wipe out most of the world, let alone Iran.
And before you start with an argument that we would do nothing, remember that the US is the only country to ever use a nuclear weapon in open warfare.
Iran would cease to exist.
I do not think Obama would retaliate with nukes...he’s a chicken shit.
That being said, Iran may very well want us to nuke them into oblivion...they love death/martyrism.
WWOD?
A single nuke is not ONE big bomb. It is the ONE big bomb which assures you will be left alone to produce MANY big bombs and, eventually, the means to deliver them.
Islam wants to Destroy the Big Satan first, then the little Satan !
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai
Probably Oklahoma City, if anywhere.
Tulsa is home of Oral Roberts University, to give you some of its flavor.
You are way too complacent. No, Iran isn't going to nuke Israel tomorrow if they get nuke tech. They will, however, deter others from attacking them and position themselves to nuke Israel the day after tomorrow, instead. 5 or 10 years from now, millions of innocent people will die. They hope that "5 or 10" sound so much like "forever" to myopic politicians in denial, that they can get there safely. Because the last chances to stop them before they can nuke someone back, are oh, about the next 6-12 months. And nobody in the west is going to lift a finger in that time frame.
Only Bibi might...
not sure what he thinks of the saudi royal family. given how he is turning US orientation on its head, he may snub them too.
What if What happens when Iran Gets A Working Nuclear Weapon?
I think Sting was correct as a matter a fact, mutually insured destruction was not a game the russians wanted to play, cause like us, in the end, the wanted to live, had families, and were much more “like us” than “unlike us”. The Russians most definitely loved the children.
The “others” will shall call them, will gladly do an honor killing of thier children for various things, and to die killing others is a ticket to Allah, there is a difference, I just meant that the song he sang in many respects had a lot of truth in it.
They won’t hit us first. The fact of this serious matter is Iran will indeed gain a couple of relatively crude nuclear devices within the next three to ten years, but they will be on par with the 1945 nukes we used, not our ‘dial a nuke’ technology.
They won’t have several THOUSAND on hand, as we do today, in short.
They’ll hit Israel. My guess is via a nuclear bomb carrying ship, or even a fishing boat, at Haifa. They won’t risk losing it trying to get it into Tel Aviv via truck, and they don’t have the delivery system to send it via a parabolic arc.
To me the more pertinent question is will we, the United States, grant asylum to the survivors of Israel being hit with a nuclear weapon. The country is so small, a nuclear explosion - and believe the Iranians will in fact make it as ‘dirty’ a nuke as possible...well, it would end Israel’s existence as a nation in my opinion, due to the fall out alone.
Obama might send a strongly worded letter in response, but thats about it.
Iran could also fire one of their missles from a ship, aimed at the US. No one could respond quick enough to defend against it. You don’t need a launching pad for this.
Bingo
Sting wasn’t correct because he doubted the Russians loved
their children and didn’t trust Ronald Reagan to keep him
safe. The score as shown by history? Ronald Reagan: 1, Sting: 0
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Simple, they will become the dominant power in the middle east. Not to worry, our cars will be running on wind. They can't take that away, can they? No matter, my car will run on potato salad.
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