Michael Wise writes:

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Defendario wrote:

Michael Wise wrote:
In article ,
"David Nicholls" wrote:

The mid-east is already nuclear (Isreal) - it is the appearance of a
balance
that appears to worry the US.

That and the fact that officials in the Iranian government (from the top
down) have repeatedly made public comments that various countries (such
as Israel) should be wiped off the map.


You make that sound like a *bad* thing...


Are you saying that the guaranteed nuclear counter response and
resulting regional death, destruction, and nuclear fallout around the
world are good things?

Guaranteed nuclear response is what kept the cold war from becoming
too hot in the developed nations for half a century. The wars went on
in other countries with all manner of other weapons, with resulting
death and injuiries by the tens of millions. I don't think you're
making a good point in isolating "nuclear" from "non-nuclear"
here. The fact that developed countries might suffer if many nations
obtain deliverable powerful weapons is about the only thing that
worries them. IMHO its a good thing, since it will bring out statemen
with wider vision, and force all nations to make greater efforts to
cooperate, and not merely divide the world into something along the
lines of the G8 and all the others.

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