Reply #30: Other than being bad from the standpoint of proliferation-- [View All]

--why would any sane person even give a flying fuck if Iran acquired a nuclear weapon? Even the proliferation argument is starting to look silly because the Bushies have been doing everything they can to egg on Pakistan and India in their nuclear competition.

The only thing that an Iranian bomb would be good for would be to give them the kind of protection that North Korea now has from military subjugation by the US. They couldn't use it on Israel--the whole country would be turned into a radioactive parking lot by Israel's 500+ nukes. Giving one to terrorists? Why in bloody hell would terrorists shop for nukes in Iran when there are so many available in Russia, which has a really, really lousy command and control system? Not to mention all those unemployed Russian nuclear scientists.