Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Suma who wrote (61392)	4/24/2008 11:59:30 AM
From: Bridge Player	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542114

Why would any nation in what might be called common sense choose to strike us knowing our retaliatory power ? This is something that I have never understood. I have no problem with that reasoning, as I feel much the same way. I believe it is only a matter of a few years before Iran obtains nuclear weaponry, absent a preemptive strike by Israel to remove their capability. (I do not believe that the U.S. will militarily do that, under any president, although it is remotely possible. I do think that we might encourage Israel, surreptitiously, to do so, although not necessarily with a nuclear attack.) My concern is what an unstable, non-common-sense head of government, such as Ahminijad, and/or some terrorist group that was able to obtain such weapons, might choose to do. Nuclear blackmail would present any president with very few palatable options. But I don't lie awake at night worrying about it. My grandchildren can do that in a few years if they feel inclined.