Countries keep their nuclear programs secret. That makes Iran’s trumpeting every new stage of warhead development suspicious.
If Iran wanted to fend off the impeding strike on its nuclear facilities, it would say the bomb is ready. Nobody could definitely disprove that, and the strike would be recalled for fear of retaliation.
Is Ahmadinejad inviting a strike, pleading for one? A nuclear program is fairly expensive, and the Iranian budget is tight. Iranians might or might not have the nuclear know-how. It is not impossible that Ahmadinejad wants an attack to cover a failed nuclear program.
Iranians actually accepted similar excuse—the accidental downing of an Iranian civil plane by the Americans—to end the war with Iraq.
That said, the Iranian facilities still must be bombed; we shouldn’t take chances with nuclear weapons.
R E V I E W O F O B A D I A H S H O H E R ' SS A M S O N B L I N D E DbyRonald W. Satz, Ph.D.4 StarsShoher properly applies Machiavellian principles to the Middle East conflict, and demonstrates a superb understanding of world history, religion, culture, politics, and military affairs. The text reads like a stream of consciousness, with thousands of descriptive and prescriptive statements intermixed. It's most appropriate for Middle East experts at Western policy and military think tanks; the many prescriptive statements need to be categorized, quantified, costed, and prioritized for use by political and military leaders. There are 160 end notes and a detailed table of contents, but no index, charts, maps, or diagrams—so I cannot quite give the book 5 stars. I agree with Shoher that the Palestinian Arabs should be paid to leave Gaza and the West Bank and to move to Jordan; eventually the Hashemite Kingdom will fall, and the Palestinian Arabs will take over. The Jordan River makes for a good military boundary, and good fences make for good neighbors. I disagree with Shoher, however, in his proposal that Orthodox Jews should form an independent theocratic state in Judea—an enclave like the Amish have in Pennsylvania should be sufficient; Jews around the world will not accept a non-democratic Jewish state. Shoher favors moderate religiosity, as I do, and a return to a Sadducean (rather than Talmudic) code of law (i.e., minimal law, strongly enforced, rather than maximal law, weakly enforced). The work is similar to, but more detailed than, Michael Ledeen's Machiavelli on Modern Leadership. The only factual error in the book is on p. 175, where Shoher asserts that Muslims outnumber Jews in the U.S.; this is not so, most demographers say there are approx. 3 million Muslims and approx. 6 million Jews in the U.S. Shoher closes the book with a detailed riposte to Edward Said; I never understood Said's popularity in the academic world, particularly after Commentary magazine's blistering factual refutation of him, and I'm happy to see that Shoher concurs. ———Obadiah: I submitted the above to Amazon.com. It doesn't appear that they're going to display it. At least I tried. Thanks for the book.
How many more ARABIAN BLACK-NIGHT they all WILL BE FORCED BY THEMSELVES TO SLEEP OVER? Iranians SUICIDELS? Want they become BLOWN-UP-Heroes or are they ALL CRAZY MUSLIM MANIACS? And WHY… Yes, WHY are they all born as the most unique fatalists? WHY is their Heaven so incredible Hellish?