UN Vote Backs Lebanon Cease-Fire

[Rob]

World War III? Nah, I think we're all going to have to wait for Jebus a bit longer.

Do any of you actually think that Iran would declare war on Israel in the unlikely event that it develops nuclear weapons?

[Rob]

So Iran would launch a nuclear attack on Israel, out of the blue, thereby ensuring its own destruction from retaliatory Israeli and US strikes.

Makes sense, I guess.

[Rob]

Ahmadinejad's belligerent rhetoric is very useful to the clerics as Iran makes its bid for regional leadership, but will they follow through on it? The clerics seek the annihilation of Israel, but are they eager for mutual annihilation? They are fanatics, but they haven't parted ways with reality.

Iran funds Hezbollah and its ilk to fight proxy wars against Israel, but actual war? Nuclear war, no less? No. If they develop a nuclear arsenal (big if), its value will be primarily psychological- as a deterrent to US invasion, and a counterbalance to the Israeli array.

It's not the best scenario, of course, but we won't be on the brink of Armageddon should Iran get nukes.

[Rob]

A true threat, because he had already followed through on much of his rhetoric (he reoccupied the Ruhr, annexed the Sudetenland, absorbed Austria in the Anschluss).

Ahmadinejad is all talk.

[Rob]

Anyone else catch Ahmadinejad's interview with Mike Wallace?