re: #97 McSpiff

You know, putting on my “Think-like-a-terrorist” hat, I still don’t get it. Why waste the cash on Scuds? If I was going to go toe-to-toe with Israel, I’d want small, man portable anti-tank and anti-air weapons. If I was going for anything bigger of the same vintage, I’d want some Russian 23mm gear, not freakin Scuds. These guys really aren’t all that bright…

If I were a real-deal bunch-of-virgins-waiting-for-me kind of terrorist, I would have a massive hard on at the concept of getting a nuke. Nothing could possibly trump that, and Israel is small enough that a single nuke could wipe out the entire country. The thing is, it’s pretty much inevitable, in the sense that the longer the conflict draws out, the more nuclear technology is trivialized, the more likely it becomes. Now all it takes it takes is a precisely calibrated laser.

That’s what scares the shit out of me, not just for the people of the ME, but everybody else as well. If the ME descends into nuclear war, the bulk of the global oil supply disappears instantly, the global economy collapses completely, and the rest of the world falls into 50 years of war, famine, and disease.

And all it would take is one nutbag with a suitcase nuke. This conflict has to end, one way or the other. There has to be a solution.