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Why on earth would we wait to disarm Iran?
Slate Magazine —
... would incite him to saturate our troops with chemical weapons, ignite the oilfields, destroy Israel, inflame the "Arab street," and overthrow every friendly Middle Eastern government, etc., etc. Those of us who wanted to get rid of these hideous governments were bombarded with arguments that said, in effect, they are not only a threat but actually a lethal threat, and their forces are made up of people who are 10 feet tall. The contradiction cut both ways, in other words. [more ...]
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Romney goes nuclear on White House over Iran talks
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... atomic energy organization, may have simply been negotiating tactics ahead of negotiations that started in Vienna, the city that saw so many Cold War nuclear talks between the United States and the Soviet Union… “By the end of these next two days,” one senior administration official in Washington said, “we’ll know if the Iranians are serious and whether we have time” to pursue further diplomacy with Iran without fearing that it could race ahead to produce a weapon. Exit question via Hitchens : If a confrontation with Iran is inevitable, what do we gain by waiting? ...
Hitchens: Always a good time to bomb Iran
Newshoggers.com —
... No, for Hitch, the fact that Iran is even further from being a threat means that it should be even easier to bomb the hell out of them (for their own good, of course). ...
Hitchens: What are we waiting for in Iran?
Israel Matzav —
Hitchens: What are we waiting for in Iran? [image] Christopher Hitchens asks some interesting questions about Iran (Hat Tip: Eli Lake via Twitter ). Remember that Iran acquired a good deal of its original materiel on the black market, buying through proxies and using other means of deception, before anyone knew what was going on. This in turn means that it would be very much harder to acquire replacement supplies, in the face of continuing invigilation from the United Nations, the In ternational Atomic Energy Agency , and several intelligence ...
Beware Of Neocons Bearing Best Case Scenarios For War
Wonk Room —
... Hitchens writes that opponents of the Iraq invasion claimed that “a military move against Saddam Hussein would incite him to saturate our troops with chemical weapons, ignite the oilfields, destroy Israel, inflame the ‘Arab street,’ and overthrow every friendly Middle Eastern government, etc., etc.” ...
Iran Keeps Obama Waiting on Nuclear Deal
RealClearPolitics - Homepage —
... October 20, 2009 Why Wait To Disarm Iran? Christopher Hitchens, Slate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad A contradiction must be faced by those of us who don't especially like the propaganda name neoconservative but who wish that there was a useful term for someone who favors a robust American attitude toward... ...
