On Oct 23, 2007, at 2:49 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> 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.
Post that to LGF - see how long before it gets deleted!
And why not send it to Phyllis Chesler, too? I'm sure she'd welcome it.
Doug