By Doug Newman
The screaming meemies in the War Party have their undies in a bunch over the prospect of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon.
So?
Israel has over 100 nuclear warheads.
The U.S. has thousands of nuclear warheads.
Just one of our Ohio-class submarines can carry 192 nuclear warheads.
192 Irans in one metal tube.
Ahmedinejad is a lot of bad things. However, he is not stupid. What do you think the U.S. or Israel would do if he were to attack either of us?
I will let this be a rhetorical question.
And besides, if he were to nuke Israel, the fallout would kill a lot of his Muslim siblings in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, etc.
Does he want that?
I don’t think so.
Hence, Iran doesn’t scare me.
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Wikipedia: List of Countries by military expenditure 2010.
Iran is 25th on this list, just behind Singapore. It spent about $7 billion on its military in 2010, or just over 1% of what the U.S. spent.
One more time, Iran doesn’t scare me.
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Enough said?
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Military Power in Perspective by Mark D. Fee.
Again, Iran doesn’t scare me.
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Food for the Thinkers
Iran doesn’t scare you because you use logic to form opinions; the warmongers rely on emotionalism and panic reactions to spread their war propaganda.
“Why Iran doesn’t scare me” is a very succinct and accurate refutation of the “Iran is the bogeyman” agitprop! Well done, Doug, as usual.
“We simply cannot keep the country in readiness to fight an all-out war unless we are willing to turn our country into a garrison state and abandon all [its] ideals of freedom.” ~ Senator Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio)
And of course Pakistan has nukes too, and they are a far more unstable country that Iran is, but they don’t appear to have any intention of using them.