Reply #9: I agree. But, nothing in the world is going to stop both from nuclear [View All]

programs.

Israel has to grow up and accept the inevitability of the same MAD constraints that have kept the rest of the nuclear club nations from warring with each other.

Israel will not keep its regional monopoly on nuclear terror. Besides, if they can live with the Sunni (Pakistani) bomb, they can learn to live with the Shi'a (Iranian) version.

We'll have to insure that Israel doesn't preempt Iran, lest Pakistan get into it. Even if Pakistan were to stay out of an Iranian-Israeli WMD exchange, there would be terrible longterm effects on US national security. Radiological dirty bombs are easy to make and the materials are readily available all over the world. That's the other nuclear proliferation problem that we'll never be able to contain. What we can do is restrain our allies and prevent the sort of triggering incident that would provoke another almost certain mass casualty attack on the US.

I'm not convinced that we can't regain a role as an honest broker. But, first, we have to throw off Bush-Cheney and the neocons.