Russia was a problem, but it did operate with some sense of civilized rules. It didn’t for instance provide nuclear weapons to terrorists. Iran can’t wait to give weapons to third parties to use against targets around the world.
Now that Iran is going to have the bomb, so will Saudi Arabia, and a number of other Middle-Eastern nations. Each of them will be able to proliferate bombs or harder to track, bits and pieces or mere technological know-how.
These nations don’t operate by the same rules the U.S.S.R. and the United States used during the cold war. Comparing what Reagan had to deal with to this “Free-for-all” that we’re looking at here, isn’t apples to apples.
Once Iran has this technology, it doesn’t have to give a terrorist group an actual bomb. They’ll merely give them some components, and help them develop the bomb in some secret place in parts, so it can be brought to the U. S. in pieces, assembled, and detonated.
This is going to cause proliferation on steroids, and it’s going to get very ugly in short order.
Sometimes it is best for the big nation to act like a tyrant if the little nation won’t live like a civilized player. Iran has been looking for a bloody nose for decades.
We let it act like a spoiled child out of control, and we’re going to pay dearly for that.
Yes Mr DoughtyOne.
I believe you have a handle on the situation.
Russia was a problem, but it did operate with some sense of civilized rules. It didn’t for instance provide nuclear weapons to terrorists. Iran can’t wait to give weapons to third parties to use against targets around the world.
If “Iran can’t wait,” why didn’t Reagan invade Iran? We heard the nuclear scare stories when you wanted us to invade Iraq. Most people aren’t going to be fooled twice, that’s why the polls show that Americans aren’t with you on starting another Middle East war.
Yours truly,
A Reaganite