Israel has enough conventional weapons to defend itself from the ill-organized ragheads, especially with America's backing, so nukes for Israel are rather superfulous, though not scary like nukes for some other countries.
What annoys me is not so much the double standard, the Israelies ARE racially and culturally superior to their neighbors, it is that the mainstream worldview is so distorted that our leaders and media have to come up with any other excuse, no matter how lame, for the policy.
If we invade Iran, it will be the death-knell of this country. I am not arguing for the relative merits of the Iranians. Vietnam demonstrated it, Iraq is demonstrating it, the British and French colonial experience demonstrated it. You can take people's stuff by force of arms. You can kill them, and break their weapons. But no millitary, no matter how mighty, can CHANGE PEOPLE'S MINDS by force of arms, nor make a civilization out of uncivilizable people. Our young men will continue to die and be maimed for very little reason until we realize this.
We can blow up their weapons plants if we must. IMO, we can do whatever needs to be done to defend our country against other nations from thirty-thousand feet. But none of this boots on the ground, regime-change, nation-building, humanitarian crap. These peoples' reaction to soldiers trying to build hospitals and water-treatment planes is to send as many Americans home in body bags as possible. Whatever infrastructure we must destroy in the future, let us leave it destroyed and go home.Edited by: White_Savage
