GIVE 'EM A NUKE

What do Russia, Great Britain, France, India, Pakistan, China, Israel and North Korea all have in common? They are all exempt from ever being unilaterally attacked by Uncle Sam because they have nuclear weopons. They also have in common that they've given the US the same exemption from unilateral attack since we have nukes. It's called "mutual deterence" and it worked for forty years to prevent war between the US and Russia.

Iran may or may not be developing a nuke, but given America's propensity for attacking weak, non-nuclear countries in the region such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, it would be quite foolhardy for them non to be trying to build one.

Iran presents an existential threat to no one with nuclear weopons; but we present an existential threat to them exactly same way we did to the three aforemented countries which all experienced our enforced version of regime change.

We set up two markers for going to war with Iran - closing the Strait of Hormuz and building a nuclear weopon. The first won't happen unless we attack them, at which point it most certainly will. Say hello to $10 or gallon of gas. Say hello to Great Depression II. The second marker can never be definatively verified so we have simply assumed they are building one and have declared economic war on Iran, and quite possiby are working in more sinister ways to topple their government. It won't take much for an intended or unintended spark to set off a shooting war, which will quickly close the Strait, possibly involve many more natilons, and tip over our economy like the Costa Concordia hitting a sand bar.


Let's cool things down a bit by giving Iran a token nuke so they can join the countries above who we will never attack and who won't attack us.

Absurd idea you say? It's infinately less absurd than the political leaders and pundits and foreign countries who are banging the drums for another senseless and bankrupting and possibly catastrophic new war in the Middle East.