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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: bentway who wrote (246984)10/30/2007 12:09:28 PM
From: michael97123  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Without having seen it, upon reading it Podhoretz sounds like a madman himself. The personal nature of his attack on Zacharia who i believe supported the iraq war is notable. The Hitler thing is nuts. I think the more apt comparison is with stalin and mao. If it were bin laden podhoretz was talking about, i would agree with him. That is not to say that there are some in iran who are nuts. That is not to say that iran will be difficult to contain and deter.
I will say one thing that i think you might agree with Chris. If we fail to deter iran and somewhere along the way they use a nuke, it needs to be made quite clear to them that they will be turned into a parking lot and that threat must be credible and carried out. That is the heart of what deterrence was back in the good old days of the Cold War. MAD.
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