I read an opinion a while ago that presented a hypothesis for Iran's dedicated intention to develop nuclear weapons. It laid out the following.
Bush 43 took office, faced a bellicose N. Korea issuing threats of violent destruction, and an attack in 2001 by al Qaeda. Bush decided to target extremist terrorists, and launched wars in Afghani…
I read an opinion a while ago that presented a hypothesis for Iran's dedicated intention to develop nuclear weapons. It laid out the following.
Bush 43 took office, faced a bellicose N. Korea issuing threats of violent destruction, and an attack in 2001 by al Qaeda. Bush decided to target extremist terrorists, and launched wars in Afghanistan, then Iraq. America attacked Iraq in defiance of its and the UN weapons inspector's assurances it had no nuclear weapons. No military response of any sort befell N. Korea.
The article posited that Iran's leadership saw only one major difference between the Muslim countries attacked and N. Korea: nukes. With that, they determined the only thing that could protect them from a US attack was nuclear strike capability. They saw it as attack insurance, and the Ukrainian experience recounted by Thom above might support their assumption.
Our nation failed Ukraine. Biden should have pulled out all the stops and given them everything they needed to oust Russia from their country quickly, including offensive capability, Putin's nuclear threats be damned. Ultimately, the trickle of weapons the Biden administration delivered each time, always at the last minute after bickering with Republicans, weren't enough to give Ukraine the advantage they needed to bolster their courageous and supremely effective military. The signatories to this memorandum failed first. Our nation failed further by wasting its unipolar superpower to dust off Russian aggression with speed. I can't decide if hubris or cowardice is more at fault.
I read an opinion a while ago that presented a hypothesis for Iran's dedicated intention to develop nuclear weapons. It laid out the following.
Bush 43 took office, faced a bellicose N. Korea issuing threats of violent destruction, and an attack in 2001 by al Qaeda. Bush decided to target extremist terrorists, and launched wars in Afghanistan, then Iraq. America attacked Iraq in defiance of its and the UN weapons inspector's assurances it had no nuclear weapons. No military response of any sort befell N. Korea.
The article posited that Iran's leadership saw only one major difference between the Muslim countries attacked and N. Korea: nukes. With that, they determined the only thing that could protect them from a US attack was nuclear strike capability. They saw it as attack insurance, and the Ukrainian experience recounted by Thom above might support their assumption.
Our nation failed Ukraine. Biden should have pulled out all the stops and given them everything they needed to oust Russia from their country quickly, including offensive capability, Putin's nuclear threats be damned. Ultimately, the trickle of weapons the Biden administration delivered each time, always at the last minute after bickering with Republicans, weren't enough to give Ukraine the advantage they needed to bolster their courageous and supremely effective military. The signatories to this memorandum failed first. Our nation failed further by wasting its unipolar superpower to dust off Russian aggression with speed. I can't decide if hubris or cowardice is more at fault.