The Lord High Almighty Pooh-Bah of Threats. The Grand Ayatollah of Nuclear Menace
The Nation Of Change article, The Lord High Almighty Pooh-Bah of Threats. The Grand Ayatollah of Nuclear Menace, presents some of the best arguments against our current fixation with Iranian nuclear ambitions. The article contains quite a number of quotes from the band of hysteria organizers that indicate what they really think. I have chosen just one of them for a teaser.
The neo-conservative thinking (and Barack Obama can be regarded as often being a fellow traveler of such) is even more charming than that. Listen to Danielle Pletka, vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at America’s most prominent neo-con think tank, American Enterprise Institute:
The biggest problem for the United States is not Iran getting a nuclear weapon and testing it, it’s Iran getting a nuclear weapon and not using it. Because the second that they have one and they don’t do anything bad, all of the naysayers are going to come back and say, “See, we told you Iran is a responsible power. We told you Iran wasn’t getting nuclear weapons in order to use them immediately.” … And they will eventually define Iran with nuclear weapons as not a problem.
The question of what would Iran do with a nuclear weapon if it had one may be the best antidote for our current hysteria.
Even I think some of the article may be over the top, but even those parts give you food for thought.