I think - the "Iran crisis" - is just a bad joke -

[bill for obama]

Lets get real -

If they were ever or ever became a threat - we really do have the capacity to "blow them back to the dark ages" - we just do.

SO - are they suicidal??

If they are - well, they may have an impact - but it would last a few hours - in which time the signature of the agent would be detected and then if it was from the country - it would be totally destroyed.

Not exactly mutually agreed asured destruction - but akin to it.

It is the truth - and they know it.

[spanone]

1. just like iraqi wmd...just as funny too

[bill for obama]

2. You think we funny.

You really think we wouldn't respond that way.

[hokies4ever]

3. A more likely scenario is Israel attacking Iran

if the USA doesn't attack Iran because of their nuclear enrichment. Our side will be the aggressor in this war scenario.

[bill for obama]

4. This is not about scenario -

It is a capabilty -

And weapons in proximity to other weapons - they go off.

That is history.

[hokies4ever]

5. "So - are they suicidal"

Of course not, but they will respond militarily if they are attacked by either Israel or the USA. That was the point I was making. It's a crisis because of our unwavering support of Israel and Israel's preemptive war doctrine.

[bill for obama]

7. Maybe you are right -

But there is a limit to WAR.

Militarily - it has a limt.

I honestly have no thought one way or the other about Israel - I don't - not my country.

But the idea that some little crap country could really threaten the United States - I don't think so.

Are they bent on suicide- it is the question.

[nomorenomore08]

6. Yeah, it is pretty close to M.A.D., considering not just the utter destruction of Iran, Israel,

and possibly other countries as well, but the worldwide political, economic and environmental consequences, that would result from a nuclear war.

[bill for obama]

8. MAD became MAAD - more than a turn of words.

Mutually assured destruction - became mutually agreed assured destrution.

It was the day that nuclear destruction left human hands and became - assured - by machines that would end the thing if or not not we survived - it is a strange turn of events, really.

Today - in such an attack - live or die - people initiating any such attack - will die too.

Mutually agreed assured destrution - we put our faith in machines to do our bidding - literally.

You really think they cared about the environmet - or anything like it??