In one of my favorite episodes (it was a while back) of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry and Cheryl argue about whether it’s enough to say “I love you forever” or whether you have to commit to loving your spouse forever and beyond.
That’s what came to mind when I read this report about a study about the nightmare scenario of nuclear war in the Middle East (by the U.S. Center for Strategic and International Studies), in which it was predicted that Israel would probably survive*** in some form but that Iran would be obliterated: [e.a.]
Anthony H. Cordesman, explor[ing] just such a nightmare scenario, not[ed] that it could lead to the death of between 16- 28 million Iranian civilians, and 200-800 thousand Israelis. …
Given certain conditions, Israel could potentially survive such a nuclear scenario, the study found. Iran, on the other hand, would be completely and utterly obliterated. “Iranian recovery is not possible in the normal sense of term, though Israeli recovery is theoretically possible in population and economic terms,” wrote Cordesman, who compiled this study entitled “Iran, Israel, and Nuclear War”
And a happy Christmas season to you, too!
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*** Wasn’t I just saying yesterday that the Jews should be renamed? that they should be called the Survivors?
While the young progressives at TAPPED Talmudicize about the finer points of Israel’s nuclear deterrence capability and speculate about the plans to use that capability. And while other progressives fulminate about those Embarrassing, Nasty Jews and AIPAC, who want to lead the United States straight to destruction—and damn the consequences!—for the sake of Israel. And while yet more young progressives debate about whether or not Comrade Edwards is with them or against them in the campaign to Just Say No to Bombing Iran…
Israel is getting busy deterring the Iranian nuclear program—if you believe this item first published in The Times (London):
A PRIZE-WINNING Iranian nuclear scientist has died in mysterious circumstances, according to Radio Farda, which is funded by the US State Department and broadcasts to Iran.
An intelligence source suggested that Ardeshire Hassanpour, 44, a nuclear physicist, had been assassinated by Mossad, the Israeli security service.
Hassanpour worked at a plant in Isfahan where uranium hexafluoride gas is produced. The gas is needed to enrich uranium in another plant at Natanz which has become the focus of concerns that Iran may be developing nuclear weapons.
According to Radio Farda, Iranian reports of Hassanpour’s death emerged on January 21 after a delay of six days, giving the cause as “gas poisoning”.
Is it too much to ask all the young opinion makers to follow the goddamn news?
