On 16/6/2007 3:21 AM, thomas malloy wrote: > Horace Heffner wrote: > >> >> On Jun 15, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Robin van Spaandonk wrote: >> >>>> >>>> And your point regarding occupation is? >>> >>> >>> I only asked what it meant, I didn't say you were wrong. I don't >>> disagree with >>> you that it would have that result. I do however disagree with the >>> ethics, the >>> legality, and with the original premise that any form of occupation >>> is necessary >>> to begin with. >> >> >> >> My point was not about ethics at all though, merely that pursuit of >> nuclear weapons capability is a *stupid* strategy for a country like >> Iran. My only intended involvement here was to predict possible >> scenarios, not consider ethics. Ethical or not, when any state >> starts an unlimited war then that war is unlimited. A small power >> has great disadvantages in such a war. Asymmetric conventional wars >> are more sensible for small power war mongers that insist on having >> their wars, and of course no war at all is way better. > > > I agree with Horace, nuclear weapons are dirty, both to make and use. If > you threaten another country with them, then don't be surprised if they > hit you first. > > Robin was going on about the head Mullah in Iran being opposed to nukes, > Ahmadidajad is a figurehead, the council of Mullah's is running the > country. So if the Mullahs don't like it, they should silence Ahi, > before one of the three countries that he's threatened with > annihaliation does it for them. I assume that the Mullah's share the > same ology that Ahi does, and if you believe that your god has commanded > you to do the battle of Armageddon, then that's what your going to do. > > Later he posted: > > Once again, the Iranians have never made any such threat. How can they, they > don't even have any nukes. All the media is full of is stories about how the > US > and Israel *think* they are trying to produce nukes. To me, it is blindingly > obvious that this is just a rehash of the same excuse that was used to invade > Iraq. Surely any thinking American must be able to see this too? > > Come on Robin, Ahi has repeatedly given speeches in which he has made > illusions to Israel, Britain, and the USA disappearing. I've heard > translations of him saying it! What do you think that means?.
He expects the governments which hold these three nations together to dissolve. Harry
