So what’s to stop them?

CNN on the Iran threat - Salon.com

Greenwald writes an entire post mocking a CNN claim that “Iran already has a missile that could reach the U.S. if it could put it on a ship and move it to within 600 miles of the American coastline.”

G, whose career is devoted to writing anti-American propaganda on behalf of Islamists, terrorists, and Jihader lunatics around the world, here gives vent to his usual faux outrage at such a ludicrous claim, so transparently intended to frighten Americans.

But it could well be true.

And Iran has a deep-water navy, though not a large one.

And the Iranian regime hates America almost as much as it hates Israel; it hates Americans almost as much as it hates Jews.

And some people fear Iran is working at getting nukes.

For half a century, the US deterred a Soviet attack with missiles, bombers, and submarines all stationed just off Russia’s borders.

Might Iran want to deter us, for some reason?

What do you suppose they might intend, perhaps for Israel or perhaps elsewhere?

It was bad enough dealing for so long with such a threat from the Russians, whose secular delusions about the inevitable goal of history were never much of a motive for national martyrdom.

But what about a nation ruled by Islamist crackpots whose religion is daily proved to move believers to suicidal attacks for those 72 virgins?

Even Mao’s publicly expressed and entirely believable indifference to the loss of tens of millions of Chinese lives in a possible nuclear exchange was not quite so alarming.

Though of course it was very alarming.