Re: Call me silly

On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:24:48 -0500, WaIIy wrote:

On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:38:03 GMT, Dave K <dave.k@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Actually, I sort of thought that of your post...

Sorry, no harm intended. Perhaps I am missing your point. I do
that sometimes.

Okay, Okay.

I forgot who mentioned the US, nukes and Pandora's box. I won't even
respond to that one.

I think I brought that up, and I am not surprised you are unable to
respond to it. Seriously, it is a complicated issue, and has lots of
really complicated threads involved. It is a topic worthy of
consideration though.


India and Pakistan keep each other in check.

In light of recent developments; we'll see about that.

Israel just might be toast if they didn't have nukes. Maybe they
wouldn't need them if they could be sure the US would help them from
being wiped off the map. I'm not so sure the US would respond to help
Israel out.

I'm not so sure either. I'm also not sure what is the right and the
wrong of it.

The US, India and Pakistan aren't countries run by maniacs. Well,
Pakistan isn't so hot. I have a feeling if Pakistan used nukes, there
wouldn't be much left of Pakistan in about a few hours.

.. and that is good? I don't think so.


As far as Iran is concerned....

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,484958,00.html

Iran's president is at it again, threatening Israel with
destruction should it intervene in Lebanon again. The bellicosity comes
as the UN nuclear watchdog warns that Iran may be as little as three
years away from a nuclear weapon.


<snip>

Regardless of all the hype, the sense of building nuclear powerplants
seems to evade your sensibilities. Here again, I'll offer that exporting
oil, and producing nuclear power locally is a good thing for Iran. If
you'd expand your horizons just a little, you'd see it a good thing for
this country too.

How much better would we be if we'd release the stranglehold of the oil
companies in this country on our lives?

As long as oil was cheap, it was probably better to stick with it, even
though it was imported. In our failing economic mode, we can no longer
afford the cost of the imported oil. Iran cannot, similarly, afford the
price of the imported finished products.

Let's assume you are correct in your paranoia that Iran is out to
explode some nuclear device here. Rest assured there are plenty of other
countries that have that same desire too. HOw do you propose to deal
with that? DO you think we have the money, or the will to export warfare
to any other areas of the world?

Since we have allowed business to export all of our material
production, we need to start looking at how we work with other
countries. We are no longer the superpower that has the ability to
assert our will worldwide. Thank business for that.

<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?
in_article_id=492804&in_page_id=1811>

For impaired newsreaders:
<http://tinyurl.com/26jtr6>


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