re: #201 calcajun

…and this is why a nuclear exchange within the next decade is more likely than not in that region of the world if Iran becomes an atomic power.

The only thing that would give Iran pause is the prevailing winds might blow any fallout from Israel back across Jordan and into the mullah’s faces. Not much of a deterrent, really.

Yep. The Iranians are planning to steal a page from Saddam’s playbook, and seize the Persian Gulf and the Saudi oilfields, and perpetrate the selfsame global energy blackmail that Saddam previously envisioned. And one of their prices would be tacit permission to perpetrate the unhindered destruction of Israel.