Well, not quite a thumbs up perhaps, but a grudging acknowledgement that maybe the world could live with it. After all, most countries, after acquiring a nucear weapon, don't rush out and drop it on their neighbors.
Especially when the neighbors have nukes of their own.
It's called "mutually assured destruction", or MAD for short.
It's why the Paks and the Indians don't nuke one another.
Or the Indians and the Chinese.
Or the Chinese and the Russians for that matter.
As you well know, only one country has ever used a nuclear weapon in war, and you know who that is.
So in all this hysteria about Iran it might be useful to take a step or two back and survey the big picture. Personally, I don't think anyone needs nukes. I'm about making peace.
Somebody wants to wipe you from the map?
Those are the folks you should be talking to.
More than anyone else, that's who you need to talk to.
Frankly, I think the world would be a better place if nuclear technology were relegated to the dustbin of history. There is not a country with nukes that couldn't spend the resources more usefully on housing and education and health care for their people.
That goes for Russia and the USA, for India and Pakistan, for Israel, and for Iran too.
It goes for everyone.
We will have a moral right to demand the extinction of Iran's nuclear program when we and our allies have gotten rid of our own.
Anything less is hypocrisy and nothing more.
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