posted on June 29, 2002 11:52:27 PM new
If Iran and Iraq get these weapons, life could get very bad very fast here in the US.
If Iran and Iraq wanted to, they could threaten Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Kuwait to shut down oil production.
Then what ? We risk a nuclear exchange to get the oil flowing ?
The risks become very huge and the options become very narrow. I wouldn't count on the MAD scenario with these regimes either, not to mention them passing the weapons to terrorist groups, perhaps for use, and perhaps just for purposes of blackmail.
What could a US president do if a terrorist group announced that they had planted a nuclear weapon in a major city and will detonate it if their demands aren't met ?
Things will turn to crap very quickly if this proliferation continues.
