This week, I received a letter from a guy in Pennsylvania, which is very instructive because it reflects a rather common point of view.
“Bill, here we go again, sticking our nose in someone else’s affairs. Do we know for sure that Iran will definitely use a nuclear bomb? What we should have said is if they use a nuclear weapon, Iran would be totally destroyed.”
First of all, if a country that has supported terrorism for almost 50 years becomes a nuclear threat, that is decidedly not “someone else’s affair.” It affects all of us on the planet.
Do we know if Iran would definitely use a nuke? Of course not. If your neighbor is a serial killer, do you know if he’ll murder again? Are you okay with taking that chance as your family goes about its business in close proximity to an established threat?
How about reacting after the nuclear damage is done? Smart move? Nuclear devices can be set up as smaller weapons giving an attacker “deniability” so certainty a nuke attack would be very difficult to dissect. The mullahs would not be running around shouting, “Hey, we did it!”
It’s like that right now. Many people just don’t believe Iran is close to having a nuclear weapon. What is that belief based on? Distrust of America and Israel, that’s what.
