The Odious Michael Oren: What If Gadhafi Had Gone Nuclear?

Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren and Israel itching for war against Iran or the Palestinians or someone, anyone. "Everyone else is playing war games, why can't we?" :cry:

By MICHAEL OREN

America and its allies, empowered by the United Nations and the Arab League, are interceding militarily in Libya. But would that action have been delayed or even precluded if Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi had access to nuclear weapons? No doubt Gadhafi is asking himself that same question.

Gadhafi unilaterally forfeited his nuclear weapons program by 2004, turning over uranium-enriching centrifuges and warhead designs. A dictator like him—capable of ordering the murders of 259 civilians aboard Pan Am Flight 103 and countless others in many countries including his own—would not easily concede the ultimate weapon. Gadhafi did so because he believed he was less secure with the bomb than he would be after relinquishing it. He feared that the U.S., which had recently invaded Iraq, would deal with him much as it had Saddam Hussein.

A similar fear, many intelligence experts in the U.S. and elsewhere believe, impelled the Iranian regime to suspend its own nuclear weapons program in 2003. According to these analysts, the program resumed only when the threat of military intervention receded. It continues to make steady progress today.

The Iranian regime is the pre- eminent sponsor of terror in the world, a danger to pro-Western states, and the enemy of its own people who strive for democracy. It poses all of these hazards without nuclear weapons. Imagine the catastrophes it could inflict with them.


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704517404576223052867524370.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

Not having a go at the messenger : just the message.

It is true that nukes deter foreign intervention; but most countries, including Israel I gather, think that's a good thing.

They really, really want us to topple the Mullahs.

Incredible how they try to piggyback on the Libyan War to justify an attack on Iran.

If every nation had nuclear weapons, it would certainly make everyone else think twice about invading another country.

I mean, do you honestly think the U.S. would have invaded Afghanistan or Iraq if either nation had the bomb?

I can't believe any nation, no matter how "rogue," would ever be dumb enough to use such weapons unless they were invaded, as it would mean certain counter-attack and annihilation.