[lbo-talk] Benny Strikes Again: "This Holocaust will be different"

Michael J. Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Fri Jan 19 18:06:06 PST 2007


On Friday 19 January 2007 08:46 pm, W. Kiernan wrote:


> Morris's piece is hysterical nonsense.

The hysteria actually has quite a sound basis, though it is not the basis that Morris et sim. claim. As WDK observes, it's silly to argue that Iran would ever make a first-strike against Israel. But an Iranian nuke makes Israel's nukes useless for purposes of bluff and blackmail. With a nuclear-armed antagonist in the region, nobody would worry anymore about the threat of an Israeli first strike -- what dear dead Dick Nixon used to call the "madman theory." Even a handful of Iranian nukes would make Israel's nukes as useless as a fleet of galleys.

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