I don’t agree with a lot of what she says, but I think Mary Madigan at Exit Zero has a very interesting angle on Iran:
What should we do about Iran? We should do nothing.
Seriously. When a belligerent little foaming-at-the-mouth nation shouts about nukes, they expect us to pay attention to them. This encourages other belligerent little foaming-at-the-mouth nations to do the same. So let’s not.
Imagine no reaction from the US; no attempts to appease Ahmadinejad; no threats to bomb, no threats of invasion, no sanctions. Maybe we can give them a gallic shrug. After all, Chirac is already doing the job of jumping up and down and shouting, a nice role reversal.
Iran’s bellowing doesn’t even deserve a shrug. We’ve been playing nuclear poker for more than half a century and we’ve walked away with the pot every time.
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yes but…
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing
whats to be done? (shrugs shoulders)
I can’t see what’s so ‘interesting’ about this article - it’s just the same old head-in-the-sand nonsense which you can get anywhere else. We do not have the option here to do nothing - Ahmadinejad is a Holocaust denier who’s on record as advocating wiping Israel off the world map. Your analogy about ‘Ignoring a stamping child’ doesn’t work either - one can ignore a small child, if necessary, because they are powerless. Once Iran has developed nucelar weapons (and they will if they’re not stopped) they most certainly will not be powerless - they will be able to wipe out millions of people at the push of a button.
Yeah - what David H. said.
Living under the threat of nuclear-tipped shihab-3 missiles doesn’t rate the same as my 5 year-old saying “I wish you were dead” (as hurtful as that is).