----- Original Message ----- From: "Luke Weiger" <lweiger at umich.edu>
> I'll get back to your post regarding Sachsianism, the current state of
> Afghanistan, the naivete of consequentialists, and what the cold war was
> "really" about later. For now, I'd like to note that if Iraq were to
> acquire nukes, Saddam would be able to carry out his professed goal of
> redrawing the map of the ME without fear of intervention. I cannot see
how
> any politically sane person could dismiss such a risk.
>
> -- Luke
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That's a bunch of hooey. There'd eventually be a conflict with Israel and the US. Saddam could no more redraw the map with nukes than without them because non-intervention in the ME by the US and Israel is an impossibility. The types of intervention could be argued over, but non-intervention ain't happening. One of the contested justifications now is to prevent him from getting them, just as Israel intervened in 1981.
Ian