{"id":26853,"date":"2012-03-05T15:13:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T22:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/05\/iran-nukes-and-the-future-or-lack-thereof.html"},"modified":"2012-03-08T10:15:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T17:15:50","slug":"iran-nukes-and-the-future-or-lack-thereof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/05\/iran-nukes-and-the-future-or-lack-thereof.html","title":{"rendered":"Iran, nukes, and the future (or lack thereof)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don't think anyone wants a nuclear-armed Iran. But the article suggests that such a potential (not inevitable) circumstance is not necessarily the disaster it's being portrayed as. What would<\/i> much more certainly be a disaster is an overt military attempt to prevent Iran from getting such weapons. #ddtb<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +David Kurtz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

must read<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWe Can Live with a Nuclear Iran<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFears of a bomb in Tehran\u2019s hands are overhyped, and a war to prevent it would be a disaster.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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I don't think anyone wants a nuclear-armed Iran. But the article suggests that such a potential (not inevitable) circumstance is not necessarily the disaster it's being portrayed as. What would much more certainly be a disaster is an overt military attempt to prevent Iran from getting such weapons. #ddtb Reshared post from +David Kurtz must … Continue reading “Iran, nukes, and the future (or lack thereof)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133906,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/19\/trump-re-certifies-the-iran-nuclear-deal-is-going-okay.html","url_meta":{"origin":26853,"position":0},"title":"Trump re-certifies the Iran nuclear deal is going okay","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Jul-17 3:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Despite calling it the worst deal ever, dumb, dangerous, the prelude to nuclear holocaust, and his number one priority to repeal upon assuming office, the President has acquiesced to all his top national security advisers, agreeing that Iran is honoring the nuclear deal they signed with the US and other\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133855,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/15\/on-the-iran-nuclear-deal.html","url_meta":{"origin":26853,"position":1},"title":"On the Iran Nuclear Deal","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 15-Jul-17 2:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There are a variety of people who still earn a lot of money and\/or air time basically proposing that the US can simply wish something in foreign policy and it will happen, through dint of Moral Authority and Economic Dominance and (of course) Military Might. 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