What are we getting from Israel?

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

Originally Posted by Letum

Exactly my point.

If you where genuinely concerned about changes in Iserail causing civil
strife and loss of innocent life than you would not be so quick to promote civil strife in other less pressing matters.

You show concern for innocent life only when it happens to back up the
point you making.

There is nothing inconsistent about the idea of weighing benefits and costs, and making a decision based on the ratios.

Regarding Israel, I think I'm like Skybird (as he shows here at least) in that it was a huge mistake and the main reason for not reversing that decision is the strife it'll call.

But as for Israeli nukes, quite frankly the US can't exactly shout very loud about Iranians or NKs or whatever while they are quietly backing Israel nukes. Israel is not exactly under a deadly conventional threat right now. If anything the Arabs have or could reasonably get that are likely to change those odds it'll be nukes, so there's no need to strengthen their reasons for getting some.

If I were the US, I'll at least be making noises (though perhaps DOING very little) to press Israel to give up those nukes everyone knows it has. It might give them a little more moral backbone the next time they push on someone...