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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (283623)4/10/2006 8:17:27 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (4) of 1573821
 
"Mr. Hersh suggests that administration officials believe that a bombing campaign could lead to desirable regime change in Iran — and that they refuse to rule out the use of tactical nuclear weapons."

One can hope that this is just some "what if" planning. A bombing campaign would be bad enough. Use of nuclear weapons would just be galactically stupid. Nuclear weapons have fallout, and I am not talking about radiation here. The political blowback would be something that transforms the world. They are bent on rouge nation status. Sort of ironic, actually. Wasn't rouge nations, wielding weapons of mass destruction, the big thing we were supposed to fear in those naive, pre-9/11 days. Talk about "we have met the enemy and he is us"...

I didn't comment on Mr. Hersh's article when you linked to it earlier. I have been trying to work out the ramifications of what would happen if they did it. There just isn't any real upside to this, it is all downside with options that range from horrible to much, much worse. At least we would have some motivation to wean ourselves off of oil. Because the available supply would only be a fraction of what is available now.

Think about it though. If they are willing to start a nuclear war for political advantage, why would they use lesser measures in an actual election?
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