Letters to the Editor
-
@NotOrbitBoy
My comment re. trust was that MAD requires trust. Otherwise it doesn't work. You need to trust your foe to act rationally. Re-read your post, and don't be so quick to call me non-sensical.
I should be quicker. You have not understood the argument even slightly.
Whether or not Iran can be trusted, is, I grant you, a matter of debate. I know of no way to empirically measure their trustworthiness.
Do you think they want the House of Saud ruling Iran?
Now, do you think they will do anything to make that possibility more likely, like, say, nuclear war with Israel?
The only way to ignore such considerations is with the racist assumption that Arabs are a monolithic zombie people.
If you want to trust Iran with the keys to the worst weapon known to man,...I'd like to hear your candidate say that.
"My" candidate.
Your candidate advocates murdering god-knows-how-many women and children on the off-chance it'll dissuade the Iranians from pursuing a nuke.
In fact, any pre-emptive action (and threats to that effect) is only likely to further motivate Iran to acquire nukes. It's pretty hard to see how it wouldn't, unless you think America's ball-flexing is soooooo frightening that those cave-dwelling Arabs will clamor for their leaders to seek mercy from the omnipotent American demigods.
How many other nations should have nukes? All of them? That way everyone is safe because of MAD?
In other words, do you think the nuclear non-proliferation treaty should be stood on its head?
American policy RIGHT NOW treats the NPT as a joke, that's why Bush sold nuclear material and technology to India, who is hardly in the most stable nuclear situation.
If you really believe the Republicans care about proliferation, I have some yellowcake to sell you. If your so concerned about nuclear proliferation, where were you on the India deal? Where were any of you neocon Republicans?
Personally, I'd be happy if the USA unilaterally disarmed all our nuclear weapons and get out of the MAD game. Probably won't happen, since so many Americans like yourself can't even understand the basic premise of MAD, how can you understand the solution?