Letters to the Editor
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Why are we worried about Iran?
You realize that the strategic doctrine of the US from the mid-50's through the end of the evil empire was called MAD. Mutual Assured Destruction. At this point with Iran it would be simply assured destruction for Iran. And these people, regardless of your xenophobia, are not stupid. The idea that they would want to attack us with a couple of puny A-bomhs is hardly credible.
And even if they would like to attack us, how could they do it? They have no blue water Navy, no ICBMs, and no intercontinental air force. And, please, no fruitcake suggestions that we should be worried that a sovereign state like Iran would attack by trying to sneak a nuclear weapon into the US and then set one off. I refer you to para. 1 above. In the absence of a major clamoring for American assistance from Iran's neighbors (definitely not likely), I can't see allies we need to come to the aid of.
So why is Shrub so hell bent on making an issue of this? The Iranians are within their rights under the non-proliferation treaty to enrich uranium (that was left in there so we could do it). They aren't supposed to be developing a bomb which they claim they are not. We, on the other hand, openly admit that we are. So.... who's in violation of the treaty?
The United States goaded Saddam Hussein and armed him to attack Iran in what was a bloody war back in the '80s in which Iran fought Hussein to a stand still. Not that the world came to their aid. The United States attacked Afghanistan after 9/11 because OBL was allegedly there. Of course, he had nothing to do with the Afghani government and, not surprisingly, we never got him, the guy with whom we had a legitimate bitch. And finally, Shrub decided to attack Iraq. Probably one of the few examples in US history of our attacking someone who hadn't attacked us. In this same time frame how many of its neighbors has Iran attacked? Well, none actually. So who do you suppose the world should be more afraid of: us or the Iranians?