{"id":10195,"date":"2012-02-20T08:06:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T13:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=10195"},"modified":"2012-02-20T08:08:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T13:08:39","slug":"the-lord-high-almighty-pooh-bah-of-threats-the-grand-ayatollah-of-nuclear-menace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/02\/20\/the-lord-high-almighty-pooh-bah-of-threats-the-grand-ayatollah-of-nuclear-menace\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lord High Almighty Pooh-Bah of Threats. The Grand Ayatollah of Nuclear Menace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Nation Of Change<\/em> article, <a title=\"The Nation of Change article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationofchange.org\/blogs\/bill-blum\/lord-high-almighty-pooh-bah-threats-grand-ayatollah-nuclear-menace-1329156098\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Lord High Almighty Pooh-Bah of Threats. The Grand Ayatollah of Nuclear Menace<\/strong><\/a>, presents some of the best arguments against our current fixation with Iranian nuclear ambitions.\u00a0 The article contains quite a number of quotes from the band of hysteria organizers that indicate what they really think.\u00a0 I have chosen just one of them for a teaser.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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&#8217;s most prominent neo-con think tank, American Enterprise Institute:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The biggest problem for the United States is not Iran getting a nuclear weapon and testing it, it&#8217;s Iran getting a nuclear weapon and not using it. Because the second that they have one and they don&#8217;t do anything bad, all of the naysayers are going to come back and say, &#8220;See, we told you Iran is a responsible power. We told you Iran wasn&#8217;t getting nuclear weapons in order to use them immediately.&#8221; &#8230; And they will eventually define Iran with nuclear weapons as not a problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The question of what would Iran do with a nuclear weapon if it had one may be the best antidote for our current hysteria.<\/p>\n<p>Even I think some of the article may be over the top, but even those parts give you food for thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 The article contains quite a number of quotes from the band of hysteria organizers that indicate what they really think.\u00a0 I have chosen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10197,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195\/revisions\/10197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}