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Originally Posted by Oberon
Hmmm....
Enough of them get nukes, they may just nuke each other instead of us. :hmm:
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There is no "each other". The US or Russia or China or India or somebody else has an agenda and is pulling strings (or is trying) behind the scenes. There is a constant interest somewhere in that region for someone who ought not to be buggering around in someone elses back yard. No one can deny that that was the case in the cold war (it was obvious) but the cold war isn't really over other than Soviet Russia blinked and we all started t believe that it was over.
World powers are always dicking around in the undeveloped or underdeveloped world trying to con someone out of something and create a proxy this to fight that and secure some economic interests here and blah blah.
No offense to Israel but why do you think that Britain and the US supported the creation (and still do) of Israel? Not cause of guilt or the Jewish right to a homeland but primariy because of the need for a new foothold in the middle east after the collapse of the British Empire. That the Jews were victimized and deserved something is like Iraqis being "liberated" by the invasion. Its all just a selling point.
Sorry to sound so cynical and I don't mean to offend any Jews or Iraelis here but no one cares about Israel other than Israelis, not in the upper echelons of Western Power, except for where it benefits them or their interests (be it national or personal or corporate or whatever else).
They nuke "each other" and it'll escalate into something world wide. Every major economic power has interests in the Middle East and no one is going to trash that garden cause it feeds the whole world right now.
We're worried about some crazy arabs controlling nukes but think of all the crazy Russians that have or had control. Think of all the personal interests involved in the decayed and obscenely corrupt Soviet Union.
The only thing new about all these fears we're obcessed with today is our awareness of them.