Found this posted on another thread…it belongs here.

From Sophie:

“Then there is the larger danger of permitting nuclear weapons to be acquired by religious fanatics seized with an eschatological belief in the imminent apocalypse and in their own divine duty to hasten the End of Days.”

Seems to me the description fits equally well the mullahs and the fundamentalist baptist neocons in Washington.

“The mullahs are infinitely more likely to use these weapons than anyone in the history of the nuclear age.”

No. This contest was won 60 years ago, at the start of the nuclear age, by a country named the United States of America, against Japanese civilians. The probability of the US of A using the nuclear weapon in the history of the nuclear age is 100%, as it has been done already.

“Every city in the civilized world will live under the specter of instant annihilation delivered either by missile or by terrorist.”

Just like 40 years ago during the cold war. I remember adverts for personal nuclear shelters. We’ve been there, nothing new.

Let’s at least be clear in our own minds that this jingoistic bullshit has nothing whatsoever to do with Iran obtaining nuclear weapons.  We can also be certain that the apocalypical nonsense belongs entirely to the West.  Finally, let’s be clear that Krauthammer has vastly underestimated the cost on several different fronts and we can be sure that the errors will dwarf those made in the Iraqi estimates.

Krauthammer’s proposal is also flawed from a military point of view. Military planners that have looked at this option found that we don’t have enough intelligence on potential targets and that Iran has the capability of hiding it’s R&D assets underground.

Basically, we’d have to go with a carpet bombing campaign, potentially killing millions, and even then the effectiveness is less than certain. Studies after WWII showed that Nazi Germany had effectively decentralized strategic production and moved it underground. The effects of of the Allied bombing campaign were much less than original estimates.

When you include these factors into the calculations, a bombing campaign such as Krauthammer suggests is idiotic.

This man Krauthammer should be relegated to the farm with Mr. Cheney, Mr Rove and Mr. Kristol, where they can play monopoly and military conquest world domination board games, away from the rest of us, till they die.

What is the justification for strike on Iran. Is U.S. prepared to give up its own nuclear weapons? Is the U.S. going to launch an arial strike against Israel, India, Pakistan, North Korea, France, and other countries? Or is the logic is that its okay for us and our friends to have nuclear weapons but no one else can. This logic is as flawed as just about anything coming out of the mouths of conservatives who seem to specialize in hypocarcy.