williatw wrote:Diogenes wrote:M.A.D. worked on Atheist Russians because they didn't want to die. M.A.D. will *NOT* work on religious kookbags who believe it is their moral duty to trigger the return of the 12th Imam.
I suppose the question is just how much the mullahs and ayatollahs including the "Supreme Leader" are actually in total control of Iran especially the military. Seems to me if they just wanted a few nuclear weapons they could probably just buy them under the table from impoverished North Korea; but I digress from my main point. If Iran gets functioning nukes in the next few years and if the mullahs order the military to just "fire them off" at Israel/Western Europe/US the assumption is that the generals will just do it, even knowing they will face nuclear annihilation/death themselves. That the senior Iranian civilian (and especially) military leadership are overwhelmingly of the lets make this nuclear holocaust thing happen or are more frightened of the mullahs than they are of thermonuclear war. That if said "supreme leader" ordered such (nuclear holocaust) they (the generals) wouldn't just immediately take power in a military coup and depose him and arrest/jail him and the senior nut-bag mullahs supporting him. Such a bring on the holocaust plan would likely be planned months/years ahead of time with the likely knowledge of senior military officials; plenty of time for a coup (or maybe even an arranged accident(s)/assassination(s) blamed on a convenient fall guy).
Addendum: Perhaps I am underestimating the deviousness of those mullahs and ayatollahs; maybe the plan is to act in such a way as to provoke Israel into nuking them first. A few 10's (or 100's) of thousands of dead Iranians as a result of a deliberately Iranian goaded Israeli nuclear preemptive strike would give them the excuse they needed to order a massive all out counter-strike (& not even just against Israel). No general could refuse the order of retaliation from the supreme leader if Israel could somehow be made to strike first.
I have little doubt that when the Supreme Kooks tell them to push the button, the button will be pushed. I expect their target to be Tel Aviv, because even those loons would not dare attack Jerusalem. That would get a lot of other Muslims mad at them.
It is insane that we even consider the option of letting the crazies have such a weapon. As I have said many times, Curtis LeMay had exactly the right idea, and we should have done as he suggested. This is even more apparent in the case of Religious Nut Iran.