[lbo-talk] "Islamofascism Awareness Week" (was Marjane Satrapi: Revolutionary Spirit)

[andie nachgeborenen]

For the record, I am in favor of total nuclear
disarmament by everyone, and have worked for many
years for that goal, including extensive organizing
and writing against the US possession and use of
nuclear weapons. I do not favor anyone adding to the
world's nuclear arsenals, including Iran. But I cannot
see that the US government is in any position to
object to Iranian efforts to get the bomb, much less
to take any steps to stop them. I think that the world
peace movement, such as it is, is in such a position.)

If I were the Iranian government, I would make every
effort to make sure that my country did build a
nuclear deterrent -- precisely because the US (and
Israel) is such a menace in the region. If Iran gets
the bomb, the US has nobody to blame but itself. I
actually also predict that as a matter of realpolitik
that a Middle East with a nuclear-armed Iran would be
a much more stable and safer place because it would
take the question of an attack on Iran off the table.
I certainly would be a lot less alarmed at a
nuclear-armed Iran than I am at the reality of a
nuclear-armed Pakistan, a far more unstable place. I
don't think that's a reason to attack Pakistan either.

 

--- Robert Wrubel <bobwrubel at yahoo.com> wrote:


> Michael wrote:
> "But whether fired by indignation and rhetorical
> zeal,
> or just because aliquando bonus dormitat Homerus, he
> (Andie)has let slip an expression which certainly
> appears to put the question of intervention very
> much
> on the table -- and frame the question, moreover, in
> a
> way rather more favorable to it than not. "
> 
> Furthermore, on re-reading Andie's comment, I see he
> states that failing to take a position against the
> Iranian regime will "let them build a bomb."
> That being the central position of the
> administration's argument for attacking Iran, I'm
> sure
> that was an inadvertence on Andie's part.
> 
> 

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