I don’t agree with a lot of what she says, but I think Mary Madigan at Exit Zero has a very interesting angle on Iran:
What should we do about Iran? We should do nothing.
Seriously. When a belligerent little foaming-at-the-mouth nation shouts about nukes, they expect us to pay attention to them. This encourages other belligerent little foaming-at-the-mouth nations to do the same. So let’s not.
Imagine no reaction from the US; no attempts to appease Ahmadinejad; no threats to bomb, no threats of invasion, no sanctions. Maybe we can give them a gallic shrug. After all, Chirac is already doing the job of jumping up and down and shouting, a nice role reversal.
Iran’s bellowing doesn’t even deserve a shrug. We’ve been playing nuclear poker for more than half a century and we’ve walked away with the pot every time.
yes but…
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing
whats to be done? (shrugs shoulders)
I can’t see what’s so ‘interesting’ about this article – it’s just the same old head-in-the-sand nonsense which you can get anywhere else. We do not have the option here to do nothing – Ahmadinejad is a Holocaust denier who’s on record as advocating wiping Israel off the world map. Your analogy about ‘Ignoring a stamping child’ doesn’t work either – one can ignore a small child, if necessary, because they are powerless. Once Iran has developed nucelar weapons (and they will if they’re not stopped) they most certainly will not be powerless – they will be able to wipe out millions of people at the push of a button.
Yeah – what David H. said.
Living under the threat of nuclear-tipped shihab-3 missiles doesn’t rate the same as my 5 year-old saying “I wish you were dead” (as hurtful as that is).