re: #351 ProLifeLiberal

OT, but I’ve been thinking about this for a little while.

I think there may be another reason the Iran wants Nukes. I know in the past that Pakistan and Iran haven’t gotten along. What about right now?

Pakistan isn’t about to attack Iran, with nukes or with conventional weapons. Iran is no threat to Pakistan, nor Pakistan to Iran. Pakistan has worries on its Eastern border, and domestic trouble in its western frontier provinces. The notion that Iran needs nukes to deter Pakistan is just cracked.

Neither side has any prospects of gaining something from a conventional war. The terrain between their respective heartlands is too harsh for either to really win. So the war, once begun, would just drag on. Like the Iran-Iraq war did, only worse.

Both nations have leadership that can see that. So there won’t be a conventional war.

A nuclear attack out of the blue, by Pakistan, is unthinkable. It’s much too dangerous. Pakistan has enemies, one of them nuclear. Iran has friends, at least one of them nuclear. And even if the war didn’t escalate, Pakistan would be the target of embargoes, sanctions, and so forth.

One may as well worry about whether Hungary needs nukes to defend her fishing waters from Bolivian trawlers.