Iran resumes atomic work, escalates crisis

Peter Kemp wrote:
On 9 Aug 2005 08:21:42 -0700, "Rob Arndt" wrote:

Iran lies at the heart of Mideast turmoil and hates the very existence
of Israel (like most other Arab/Islamic states).

And with some justification. Israel is not some shining white knight
in the area. Address that issue and it *will* help the attitiudes of a
lot of muslims.

He's right ofcourse, especially that Israel's existence is at the very
heart of those attitudes. The arabs habe proven remarkably generous -
just leave them alone and they're willing to excise the problem
themselves.

Or should we wait for China and N Korea to develop longer range 3-stage
missiles capable of hitting CONUS? I live in northern California and we
will be in range within a matter of years from both of these nations.

Since we spent years within range of Russian missiles and planes, I
doubt that would be all that dramatic a development.

National security is hardly "war-mongering" after 9/11...

Too late. China already has a few ICBMs that are capable of hitting
large parts of CONUS.

See what I wrote above - the ability to hit any part of CONUS is hardly
illustrative of power. Besides, assuming that they hit us and manage
not to draw so much as a firecracker in response, just what glorious
future is there for a China thats just disintegrated much of its
customers

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Peter Kemp

"Life is short...drink faster"