Given that all this is hypothetical at the moment, I think one thing should be pointed out to any red-blooded patriotic support-the-troops American - an attack on a fueled nuclear reactor is likely to spill radioactive uranium dust on US troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, or along the western shores of the Persian Gulf, depending on the wind's direction.
In soccer terms, an own goal.
Quite apart from that, the threat of the use of nuclear weapons tends to accelerate the additions to the nuclear club. During the East Pakistan/Bangladeshi War of Independence, the USS Enterprise aka the USS Corporate Welfare and its task group were sent to patrol the Bay of Bengal as a "message" to India; a nuclear message to India, an existential threat.
Various parties in the Indian Federal Parliament took exception to that, and used it as a major reason why India should join the nuclear club.
So, on one hand, we have the Israelis threatening the lives of US troops with radioactive nuclear waste they are threatening to disperse upon US deployments - and believe you me, the Israelis are not dumb-f***ks, they know that is a major consequence; on the other hand, the Israelis and the dumb-f***ks pushing for war with Iran know quite well this will bring the accession of Iran, probably Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey, to the nuclear club - thus violating the US Constitution concerning treaties - such as the Non-Proliferation Treaty - being the supreme law of the land.
The Akond of Swat was one of those people in the North-West Territories in India during the British Raj, a thorn in the side of the British Raj and all his works. The British Empire never got rid of him; he never got rid of the British Empire - until said British Empire was so worn down by fighting all the other empires, that it got rid of itself.
So who or what was the Akond of Swat? He was frequently in the news, otherwise Lear would not have written in such scathing terms of this paranoia the papers were spreading.
The Guardian back in the 1930s had a very interesting cartoon on the Italian invasion of Ethiopia - a picture of a African village, with mothers looking after their children, cows and goats feeding, other activities, with the caption at the bottom: Barbarism, or something of the sort. The next frame showed a plane roaring above, with all the huts turned into smoking holes in the grounds, bodies lying everywhere, and the caption read: Civilization.
Given that all this is hypothetical at the moment, I think one thing should be pointed out to any red-blooded patriotic support-the-troops American - an attack on a fueled nuclear reactor is likely to spill radioactive uranium dust on US troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, or along the western shores of the Persian Gulf, depending on the wind's direction.
In soccer terms, an own goal.
Quite apart from that, the threat of the use of nuclear weapons tends to accelerate the additions to the nuclear club. During the East Pakistan/Bangladeshi War of Independence, the USS Enterprise aka the USS Corporate Welfare and its task group were sent to patrol the Bay of Bengal as a "message" to India; a nuclear message to India, an existential threat.
Various parties in the Indian Federal Parliament took exception to that, and used it as a major reason why India should join the nuclear club.
So, on one hand, we have the Israelis threatening the lives of US troops with radioactive nuclear waste they are threatening to disperse upon US deployments - and believe you me, the Israelis are not dumb-f***ks, they know that is a major consequence; on the other hand, the Israelis and the dumb-f***ks pushing for war with Iran know quite well this will bring the accession of Iran, probably Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey, to the nuclear club - thus violating the US Constitution concerning treaties - such as the Non-Proliferation Treaty - being the supreme law of the land.
It’s Neither/Nor, Not Either/Or
You have a treat in store for you, all by yourself. Read and meditate on this poem by Edmund Lear:
The Akond of Swat
Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akond of SWAT?
Is he tall or short, or dark or fair?
Does he sit on a stool or a sofa or a chair,
or SQUAT,
The Akond of Swat?
Is he wise or foolish, young or old?
Does he drink his soup and his coffee cold,
or HOT,
The Akond of Swat?
Does he sing or whistle, jabber or talk,
And when riding abroad does he gallop or walk
or TROT,
The Akond of Swat?
The rest of the poem at:
http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2000/02/akond-of-swat-edward-lear.html
The Akond of Swat was one of those people in the North-West Territories in India during the British Raj, a thorn in the side of the British Raj and all his works. The British Empire never got rid of him; he never got rid of the British Empire - until said British Empire was so worn down by fighting all the other empires, that it got rid of itself.
So who or what was the Akond of Swat? He was frequently in the news, otherwise Lear would not have written in such scathing terms of this paranoia the papers were spreading.
The Guardian back in the 1930s had a very interesting cartoon on the Italian invasion of Ethiopia - a picture of a African village, with mothers looking after their children, cows and goats feeding, other activities, with the caption at the bottom: Barbarism, or something of the sort. The next frame showed a plane roaring above, with all the huts turned into smoking holes in the grounds, bodies lying everywhere, and the caption read: Civilization.
Does the cartoon need updating?