posted on Sep, 26 2004 @ 04:38 PM
Good post Radiant_obsidian, but i have a slightly different view of things...
Isreal will not nuke Iran unless iran sends up a nuke first. Isreal may and most likely will, in the next couple months, drop some of those bunker
buster bombs on iranian nuclear facilities in order to quell the threat of a nuclear Iran.
But the question is, what will iran do when this happens? No one knows, but IMO they will obviously retaliate against the Isrealis, but not in a
nuclear fashion. If they were to nuke isreal, the US, Russia, and Britan would simply level iran. We'd nuke the country off the face of the planet.
But once again, i doubt iran would respond w/ a nuclear attack. I believe iran would launch airstrikes against isreali targets and possibly invade
isreal--claiming isreal's airstrikes on their "nuclear power plants" (yeah right) was an unprovoked act of war. The middle east hates isreal, and
this would be a hell of a reason to try and decimate the country. With Bush's recent troop movements (moving troops out of dormant cold war bases to
more strategic locations), i think he might drop hundreds of thousands of soldiers into iraq, and then we'd invade iran and force them to stay at
home and defend, rather than invade isreal. We'd be attacking iran from one side, and Isreal from another. Iran would fall. But the problem is
that every other middle eastern nation would hate america and isreal (as they always have), and the entire middle east would try mounting forces and
weapons to get us out of the region. Here's where North Korea comes into the picture. North Korea would publicly threaten the US and tell us to get
the hell out of the middle east. We would say no. NK would turn over their nukes to these middle eastern nations (syria, egypt, etc) and they, in a
final gasp of desperation, might nuke American targets at home or abroad.
I personally do not believe NK will do anythign, though. Iran is the biggest threat right now, IMO. War with Iran is inevitable, there's no doubt
about that. We just have to praty to god that nukes are not used. Because if they are it's over for all of us, American and Iranian, Christian and
Muslim. We're all goners.