This is a follow-up to a previous blog where I scared my wife by opining that nuclear bombs may be ultimately needed to make this world safe for ourselves and our kids.
Bernard Lewis, a very old but very smart professor and expert on the Middle East and Islam in particular, has published a piece in the Wall Street Journal called “August 22” in which he talks about Iran and the bomb.
He talks about the Cold War between the USSR and US and what prevented us from blowing each other up in smithereens; it was MAD or “Mutual Assured Destruction”. Our missiles were pre-programmed to respond to any nuclear attack and so were the Soviet missiles. In this way no one would win and everybody would die.
Bernard Lewis points out why MAD would not work with a nuclear Iran – we are talking about Iran and Israel.
If Iran sent over nuclear bombs to eliminate Israel off the map, Israel would almost certainly respond by eliminating Iran and all who reside there. Iran would also kill many Muslims with its nuclear strike, but they don’t care about that and about being killed themselves.
You see, the Iranian Muslims also believe in the “end time”, apocalypse, Armageddon and all that jazz. They think the time is now. If they destroy the Jews and in so doing destroy themselves, they will have completed the prophecy. The dead Jews will be sent to hell and all the dead Muslims will be sent to heaven. I am not kidding here – they are serious.
Professor Lewis does not recommend obliterating Iran right now, before they get the bomb like I probably would. He suggests contacting all the “sane” Muslims in the world, to join forces and prevent Iran from getting the bomb or at least changing their leadership to people that are normal.
Just some food for thought!
Janusz
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