Living With a Nuclear Iran

[RoboPoster]

Living With a Nuclear Iran
                                       

 Robert Kaplan, The Atlantic
Iran can be contained. The path to follow? A course laid out half a century ago by a young Henry Kissinger, who argued that American chances of checking revolutionary powers such as the Soviet Union depended on our credible willingness to engage them in limited war.

            
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Robert D. Kaplan talks to James Gibney about Kissinger, Iran, North Korea, and the right way to think about the prospect of a limited nuclear exchange.

In 1957, a 34-year-old Harvard faculty member, Henry Kissinger,...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/08/14/living_with_a_nuclear_iran_239654.html

[Michael Tee]

<<Robert Kaplan, The Atlantic
<<Iran can be contained. The path to follow? A course laid out half a century ago by a young Henry Kissinger, who argued that American chances of checking revolutionary powers such as the Soviet Union depended on our credible willingness to engage them in limited war.>>

That's hilarious.  It was Kissinger who persuaded Carter, against his better judgment, to allow the deposed Shah to enter America for "humanitarian" reasons and so touched off the bitter anti-American rioting and the Hostage Crisis which poisoned relations between America and the Islamic Republic for decades since.

Yeah, that's right.  Listen to Henry Kissinger.  He knows.

[Kramer]

<<Robert Kaplan, The Atlantic
<<Iran can be contained. The path to follow? A course laid out half a century ago by a young Henry Kissinger, who argued that American chances of checking revolutionary powers such as the Soviet Union depended on our credible willingness to engage them in limited war.>>

That's hilarious.  It was Kissinger who persuaded Carter, against his better judgment, to allow the deposed Shah to enter America for "humanitarian" reasons and so touched off the bitter anti-American rioting and the Hostage Crisis which poisoned relations between America and the Islamic Republic for decades since.

Yeah, that's right.  Listen to Henry Kissinger.  He knows.

Let me see if I understand; you are OK with a crazy guy getting nukes that potentially can kill millions of innocent people and yet you don't want the average law-abiding citizen to own a weapon for self-defense purposes. Does that accurately sum up your position or not?

[sirs]

I think it depends on either their ideology and/or if they're anti-american or not.

[Michael Tee]

<<Let me see if I understand; you are OK with a crazy guy getting nukes that potentially can kill millions of innocent people and yet you don't want the average law-abiding citizen to own a weapon for self-defense purposes. Does that accurately sum up your position or not?>>

Yeah, I think it does.  And the stats bear me out.  There are hundreds of thousands of handgun deaths caused by crazy citizens exercising their Second Amendment rights.  Nobody to date has died in a nuclear attack unless the Americans killed them.

So while your crazy theorizing says it's OK to put guns into the hands of "average law-abiding citizens," the FACTS show that this has led to disaster after disaster.  OTOH, nukes in the hands of national governments, for very obvious reasons, are never the cause of tragedy and never have been.

Just one more example of crazy right-wing theories and the hard facts they always come up against and get smashed to pieces on.  And, BTW, you're welcome.