Iran and North Korea are making an alliance.

[Swampy]

Iran and North Korea have made a pact to share technology. They know quite a bit about making a nuclear bomb, but, aside from that, I'm not too worried - those two are still stuck in the typewriter age.

[jerryfmcompushaft]

those two are still stuck in the typewriter age.

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I think that may be a bit of wishful thinking, Stanley. Korea already HAS the bomb and Iran is awfully close. Iran has rockets capable of hitting Isreal - Korea has the bomb. Joining the two could be the start of WWIII.

[Swampy]

I agree, but I said ASIDE from the bomb - which is a pretty big aside - they don't amount to much. And I think they know that, if they destroy Israel, they'll be destroyed, and they're not willing to give up their power.

[jerryfmcompushaft]

But the leaders of both countries are a bit 'daffy', coo coo, unbalanced, touched in the head....etc... Can't predict what they will do. Look at how Korea launched a missile despite many warnings against such a provocative act (lucky it didn't work), and Iran has been ignoring UN sanctions for decades....

[Swampy]

They're daffy but not THAT daffy, as in they know how to avoid suicide.

[jerryfmcompushaft]

Sept 2, 2012 13:47:35 GMT -5 Swampy said:

They're daffy but not THAT daffy, as in they know how to avoid suicide.

Not too sure of that either.... Iran is tweeking some pretty powerful noses and it may not be long before Isreal calls their bluff.

[boxcar]

>>They're daffy but not THAT daffy, as in they know how to avoid suicide. <<

Hell, they do that right and left, or else teach others to do so, all in the name of Allah.

[jerryfmcompushaft]

Sept 2, 2012 14:11:22 GMT -5 jerryfmcompushaft said:

Sept 2, 2012 13:47:35 GMT -5 Swampy said:

They're daffy but not THAT daffy, as in they know how to avoid suicide.

Not too sure of that either.... Iran is tweeking some pretty powerful noses and it may not be long before Isreal calls their bluff.

Suicide is the Iranian 'cool'.... 72 Virgins.... chaos so the Madi can return.... doesn't sound too avoidant to me...

[Swampy]

That's true for the rank and file, but do you actually think the leaders want to commit suicide? Remember Saddam Hussein? He was willing to sacrifice a million troops in the Iran-Iraq war, but he hid in a hole in the ground rather than fight to the death. And Khadaffi didn't go down fighting - he was killed while trying to escape.

[Sir John]

....which is one reason why the US drone is so feared.

It kills whoever the US targets without regard to rank. And even the wife and kids are at risk, so the gene pool is spared the problem.

SJ

[Swampy]

I like Charles Krauthammer, a neoconservative commentator at the Washington Post. Hesays, quite rightly, that deterrance for the Soviet Union is very different for deterrance for Iran. He does not say if Iran can be deterred, but I think it can - after its leadership are shown they will not survive an attack on Israel.

[Sir John]

Swampy,

I have often felt that Israel should announce to the world that she has a fully operational nuclear warhead and delivery system.

Then, like JFK, give a firm declaration that a first use of a nuke on Israel will result in a full nuclear response against the cult of islam, beginning with Mecca.


JMO



SJ