"Concern over Iran nuclear work"

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Pakistan’s nuclear weapons ambitions date back to the early 1960’s at least.

Bhutto said they would eat grass if necessary to finance their atomic bomb project.

And the U.S. froze F-16 shipments to Pakistan because of the nuclear weapons project.

In fact, in the early 1960’s, Pakistan began acquiring aircraft from China because they knew the United States would never allow them to have nuclear-capable U.S. aircraft.
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There is every possibility that Iran will becoming a nuclear power without military action forthcoming from America.
If that is going to be the case for a sworn and vocal enemy of the American “Satan”, how much more difficult would it have been to take the necessary military steps against Pakistan to curtail their nuclear enterprise? Nuclear Russia and India on the one side, China and America on the other, it was not the typical kind of Iron curtain stalemate, but there was very little to do to stop this.
And now it is not just an Islamist bomb, but a Sunni Islamist bomb, with a Shia Islamist bomb not so far from the making.
Suffice it to say that the Near East has not been known to be a place where peaceful solutions to problems are common. Morevoer there exists a nihilistic streak in millenniarial religious system in which MAD does not factor.
The "never again’ attitude of the Israelis adds yet another dimension.

The only bright spot is that the people of Iran themselves may be beginning to despise their religion altogether, having been abused with it by their ayatollahs for so long. Unfortunately their own Iranian spring started to soon, long before Obama and Europe were ready to support the power of the common people. It would have been the only popular movement that would have worked directly against the Islamist cause though.
 
Monte_RCMS said:
Pakistan’s nuclear weapons ambitions date back to the early 1960’s at least.

Bhutto said they would eat grass if necessary to finance their atomic bomb project.

And the U.S. froze F-16 shipments to Pakistan because of the nuclear weapons project.

In fact, in the early 1960’s, Pakistan began acquiring aircraft from China because they knew the United States would never allow them to have nuclear-capable U.S. aircraft.
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Interesting reading.

Some of it may even be correct.

iiss.org/publications/strategic-dossiers/nbm/nuclear-black-market-dossier-a-net-assesment/pakistans-nuclear-programme-and-imports-/
 
In my opinion, neither Iranian nor Pakistani nukes, in and of themselves, are going to pull us into WWIII.

But other nations are pondering building their own, too. Saudi Arabia comes to mind…
 
It would be nice to change the agenda of the major media and congress. It seems that the threat, if we are to call it that, would be best addressed through reconciliation than military/economic/punitive intervention. What Iran has stated it wants, a nuclear weapon-free region, is to be supported, even if it is not their primary tactic.

Actual progress on creating a nuclear-free zone from India to Israel would require a lot of prayer and action, but it is doable.
 
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