[lit-ideas] Re: Ought we to do something about Iran?
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:46:08 -0500
A: Where's the threat to the USA?
E: Sharing weapons with al-Qaeda and other
non-state groups.
A: Even if Iran were to have nuclear weapons (and
this is TEN years away),
E: When now-governor Richardson (under Clinton)
went to Pakistan, he was assured (by our CIA) that
the Pakis were several years from completing a
bomb. In Pakistan he was told that the Pakis had
no intention of maintaining a nuclear arsenal. Two
weeks after Richardson returned to the US, the
Pakis tested their first nuclear weapon. This
history does not assure me about your "ten year"
estimate.
A: ...just exactly how would they deliver them?
E: There are many ways they could deliver them.
*From medium-range missile systems concealed in
shipping containers onboard a Liberian-chartered
freighter fifty miles out in international waters.
*assembled piece by piece in their US embassy from
inspection-proof diplomatic pouches.
*smuggled into the country, the nuclear core
encased in a thick lead box to avoid detection,
and assembled in a safe house.
A: Iran can't reach the USA. Iran is not a threat
to the USA.
E: So all that Great Satan, permanent war against
the USA stuff is just bluster?
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