(07-23-2015 06:56 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(07-23-2015 06:25 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  I'm gonna take, 'let them destroy each other for 1000' alex...
what happens if they attempt to use nukes on the us?
what is total annihilation of the middle east?

They're not going to attempt to use them on the US outside of possible terrorism, and if we'd quit telling their women to take off their veils, the terror threat would soon die down. Terrorism is their way of getting back at us for trying to micromanage their internal affairs. We back off and they back off. Live and let live. Unfortunately, that's a concept that State and CIA don't comprehend.

Look at it this way. You have one nuke. The other guy has 1,000. You're going to waste your one nuke pissing him off so he shoots 500 back at you and vaporizes you? Of course, that requires leadership in DC that makes it clear that if you shoot your one at us, we're going to shoot 500 back at you.

By the way, that's why Iran is decades, if not centuries, away from attacking Israel. The numbers there are about 1 to 400 according to what I've seen, and Israel has left no doubt how they would respond.

My own guess is that Iran would never nuke Israel. That's a smoke screen to hide their true purposes. They want nukes to get a seat at the big boy table, and to intimidate their Arab neighbors into kowtowing to their demands. An Aryan empire stretching from Istanbul to Kabul to Aden to Cairo is their goal.

The Arabs don't want to be intimidated by Iran, so they will get their own nukes to even things up. Even with that, it's going to be a long, long time before anybody in the region (except possibly Israel) is going to have enough nukes to annihilate any significant portion of the Middle East.

Big problem though, with the size of Israel, it would only take 1 nuke.

(07-23-2015 07:15 AM)CardFan1 Wrote:  

(07-23-2015 06:56 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(07-23-2015 06:25 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  I'm gonna take, 'let them destroy each other for 1000' alex...

what happens if they attempt to use nukes on the us?

what is total annihilation of the middle east?

They're not going to attempt to use them on the US outside of possible terrorism, and if we'd quit telling their women to take off their veils, the terror threat would soon die down. Terrorism is their way of getting back at us for trying to micromanage their internal affairs. We back off and they back off. Live and let live. Unfortunately, that's a concept that State and CIA don't comprehend.

Look at it this way. You have one nuke. The other guy has 1,000. You're going to waste your one nuke pissing him off so he shoots 500 back at you and vaporizes you? Of course, that requires leadership in DC that makes it clear that if you shoot your one at us, we're going to shoot 500 back at you.

By the way, that's why Iran is decades, if not centuries, away from attacking Israel. The numbers there are about 1 to 400 according to what I've seen, and Israel has left no doubt how they would respond.

My own guess is that Iran would never nuke Israel. That's a smoke screen to hide their true purposes. They want nukes to get a seat at the big boy table, and to intimidate their Arab neighbors into kowtowing to their demands. An Aryan empire stretching from Istanbul to Kabul to Aden to Cairo is their goal.

The Arabs don't want to be intimidated by Iran, so they will get their own nukes to even things up. Even with that, it's going to be a long, long time before anybody in the region (except possibly Israel) is going to have enough nukes to annihilate any significant portion of the Middle East.

Big problem though, with the size of Israel, it would only take 1 nuke.

still proves my answer true....

it's going to happen one day regardless of consequence....

that's going to be their biblical version of armaggedon....they just gotta have 'em some of that to realize their full potential

meanwhile, the rest of the world will deal with the fallout.....yet continue to move on....

(07-23-2015 07:15 AM)CardFan1 Wrote:  Big problem though, with the size of Israel, it would only take 1 nuke.

It would take way more than one. Israel is not that small. A direct hit on Dimona might hinder Israel's ability to retaliate, but I'm sure they have things dispersed enough to avoid that problem. And Iran is a long way from having a missile that they could aim at Tel Aviv without being equally likely to hit Damascus or Cairo--or Tehran.