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-Ed Howdershelt

Tuesday, October 3, 2006

Religious fanatics with nuclear weapons?

I just happened to see a reprint of an Washington Post editorial piece called The Tehran Calculus by Charles Krauthammer in Birmingham's Black & White paper. For the most part, it seems a fairly rational examination of the alternatives of war or no war against Iran. Until we get to this:
Then there is the larger danger of permitting nuclear weapons to be acquired by religious fanatics seized with an eschatological belief in the imminent apocalypse and in their own divine duty to hasten the End of Days.

Well, I agree that is a danger. Unfortunately, it's already happened. The fanatic of whom I speak is known as George W. Bush.

Then there's this:
The mullahs are infinitely more likely to use these weapons than anyone in the history of the nuclear age.

Krauthammer must have skipped his high school Probability and Statistics class. It's impossible to be "infinitely more likely" to use nuclear weapons than someone who already has. Either that, or he skipped the U.S. History class where he would have learned why it was that the Japanese surrendered in World War II.

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