Nikita Khrushchev famously told the West, on behalf of the communists of the world and their regimes and of the Soviet Union, in particular, “We will bury you.”
And he was not half as silly for thinking that as the Iranian mullahs who think history, in the hands of Allah (of course), is on their side.
Nor half as dangerous as their theology of suicidal martyrdom and Jihad makes them.
The nukes of Pakistan are just one or two bad days from falling into the hands of a new government just as frightful as the Iranians, though in a Sunni rather than a Shiite fashion and close to al-Qaeda, in particular.
And what of the nukes the Iranians might make for themselves?
I would have cheered if the American forces in Pakistan had found and destroyed or stolen their nukes back in 2001, I think it was, when they went there to support the impending US attack on Afghanistan.
Or perhaps it was later, during preparations for the invasion of Iraq, that the press published rumors the American forces were planning some such thing that, anyway, never came off.
Nothing like the destruction of a city and certainly not an attempt to overthrown the regime - it would only be followed by worse - but something far more focused like the killing of Osama bin Laden, I mean.
And what of Iran?
Pat Buchanan has argued in the past that the US cannot prevent the Iranians getting nukes at reasonable cost and ought to and can tolerate their having them.
He thinks any attempt with the least chance of success would provoke a war of unacceptable and disproportionate costs that would not, in the end, replace the current regime with a friendlier one and might impose unacceptable costs on the Israelis and others, too.
The Israelis appear not to agree.
Nor do the Germans, the French, the Brits, and perhaps others.
I don't know what the Obama Administration really thinks.
I think we don't need another war in the Middle East, though I must admit stopping the Muslim loons in charge of Iran getting their hands on the Bomb is a much better reason for one than because Saddam Hussein tried to kill Bush pere and paid $25K in bounty to the families of suicide bombers who struck at Israel.
Or because Rummy, Bush fils, and Cheney were stupid enough to honestly believe they could replace the Taliban regime with one much less Islamist and much chummier toward Israel and the US.
Assuming they actually believed that.
And he was not half as silly for thinking that as the Iranian mullahs who think history, in the hands of Allah (of course), is on their side.
Nor half as dangerous as their theology of suicidal martyrdom and Jihad makes them.
The nukes of Pakistan are just one or two bad days from falling into the hands of a new government just as frightful as the Iranians, though in a Sunni rather than a Shiite fashion and close to al-Qaeda, in particular.
And what of the nukes the Iranians might make for themselves?
I would have cheered if the American forces in Pakistan had found and destroyed or stolen their nukes back in 2001, I think it was, when they went there to support the impending US attack on Afghanistan.
Or perhaps it was later, during preparations for the invasion of Iraq, that the press published rumors the American forces were planning some such thing that, anyway, never came off.
Nothing like the destruction of a city and certainly not an attempt to overthrown the regime - it would only be followed by worse - but something far more focused like the killing of Osama bin Laden, I mean.
And what of Iran?
Pat Buchanan has argued in the past that the US cannot prevent the Iranians getting nukes at reasonable cost and ought to and can tolerate their having them.
He thinks any attempt with the least chance of success would provoke a war of unacceptable and disproportionate costs that would not, in the end, replace the current regime with a friendlier one and might impose unacceptable costs on the Israelis and others, too.
The Israelis appear not to agree.
Nor do the Germans, the French, the Brits, and perhaps others.
I don't know what the Obama Administration really thinks.
I think we don't need another war in the Middle East, though I must admit stopping the Muslim loons in charge of Iran getting their hands on the Bomb is a much better reason for one than because Saddam Hussein tried to kill Bush pere and paid $25K in bounty to the families of suicide bombers who struck at Israel.
Or because Rummy, Bush fils, and Cheney were stupid enough to honestly believe they could replace the Taliban regime with one much less Islamist and much chummier toward Israel and the US.
Assuming they actually believed that.
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