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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (152253)	11/22/2004 11:21:52 AM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 281500

The crazy ayatollahs may feel that "Iran's back is against the wall" but little Israel hardly did the pushing, unless you a crazy Islamist who feels its an intolerable insult to have a Jewish state exist at all. Which by some strange conincidence is just how the mullahs do feel. Israel's offense is its existence, not its actions. Don't confuse Michael. He's already confused. He honestly thinks that Iran is some sort of innocent sovereign state that does not use terrorists, namely, Hizbollah, as its cat's paw and that this state-support of a an avowedly terrorist organization is no component of Iran's foreign policy. He also doesn't think that the issue of potential Iranian proliferation is worth discussing in a foreign policy thread. In other words, the only thing he thinks is relevant is the utterly simplistic and reductionist view that Iran might be going after nuclear weapons for self-protection, never mind that neither Israel nor the US have done anything militarily aggressive to Iran, and God knows Israel has a cassus bellum it has ignored for decades as a result of Hizbollah's terror and we certainly did, too, in 1979 when the Embassy was raided and the hostages taken. But, hey, let's not get confused with these niggling, irrelevant details. At the end of the day, he believes that the world is safer if Iran has nukes because the US and Israel will be deterred from attacking it. Ergo, Iran should be left alone to pursue nukes. The possibility, hell, the absolute likelihood, in my view, of Iranian proliferation to terrorist organizations like Hizbollah doesn't matter. Hizbollah's charter's pledge to destroy Israel doesn't matter.