Iran's Nuclear Threat

Iran's Nuclear Threat

10/29/21- GodVoter.org warns about imminent nuclear threat from Iran

Nuclear deterrence assumes the fear of mutually assured destruction ("MAD"), the notion that even if a nuclear strike against another nuclear power destroys most of its nuclear arsenal, a counterstrike by even a few surviving nuclear weapons will destroy the attacker; since destruction will be mutual, the initial attack will not take place.

MAD in turn assumes the lack of desire to die, which holds true even for the likes of North Korea's Kim Jong Un, but not Islam. In Islam, the only sure way to enter paradise, where 72 virgins await to please each man, is to die while killing infidels, and the more infidels you kill, the more glorious your death. In Islam, dying to kill infidels is good and glorious, so MAD is a motivator, not a deterrent.

If Iran becomes nuclear-armed, even if its government doesn't want to launch a first strike at America, a few hard line officers within its nuclear chain of command could decide it's time to punch their glorious tickets to Islam's virgins-laden paradise. After all, the Muslim men who flew airplanes into the twin towers on 9/11 were not street urchins; they were educated, middle class men seeking something better.

Alternatively, Iran could develop small, suitcase-sized nuclear bombs, hand them to Hezbollah and other proxies to carry across our southern border and detonate in our cities. Since there will be no missiles to trace, if nobody claims responsibility, we wouldn't even have targets to counterattack.

Discussions on what to do about Iran invariably point out that Iran has double Iraq's population and triple its land mass, is protected on three sides by mountains, a sea coast armed to the teeth on the fourth side, that an invasion will require a million man army and cost trillions, and that air strikes alone will not be sufficient to topple the Iranian regime.

All of them are valid points, and the cost of even air strikes will be high indeed. But the cost of letting Iran become nuclear-armed will be nuclear detonations in major American cities, hence incalculable. Iran already has reached the point of being able to make at least two nuclear bombs, so we cannot wait any longer. Something must be done now.