Posted on 09/10/2012 10:12:21 AM PDT by mojito
IRAN has returned to the front pages after a summer hiatus. Negotiations aimed at preventing the dreaded Persian Bomb have resumed their desultory course. Iran, although suffering from the international sanctions choreographed by the Obama administration, keeps adding new arrays of centrifuges while insisting the program is strictly nonmilitary. Israel is — or maybe isn’t — edging closer to a unilateral strike.....
This strikes me as a good time to address an unnerving question that confronts any concerned student of this subject: Can we live with a nuclear Iran?
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Now imagine that Iran succeeds in making its way into the nuclear club.
Despite the incendiary rhetoric, it is hard to believe the aim of an Iranian nuclear program is the extermination of Israel. The regime in Iran is brutal, mendacious and meddlesome, and given to spraying gobbets of Hitleresque bile at the Jewish state. But....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Here in Manhattan, safely ensconced in my comfy office and my even more comfy liberal bubble and echo chamber, I have a really hard time believing that those nasty mullahs really mean those terrible things they say about destroying Isreal.
Bibi, take a clue from me. I know Obama has your back. You can trust him. And those crazy Iranian? Just ignore them. They're nothing but bluster.
You know I'm right, don't you? Cause I'm always right.
Your best friend and one heck of a really smart and insightful guy,
Bill Keller
It is easy to make a claim when there may not be any one left alive to call him on it.
As Sting say "Do the Mullahs love their children too?" the answer is -- "yes, that's why they want them to die and go to Allah"
Guys like Keller brought us World War II.
If the SHTF for real, I hope someone will remember to pay Keller a visit. "Ideas have consequences."
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