It's About To Go Down

In the Middle East, that is. Iran is making overt threats against Israel, Syria has been fingered by the UN for Hariri's (a former Lebanese Prime Minister and outspokenly anti-Syrian) assassination, and the Palestinian problem remains (namely their lack of a state or its institutions). I will comment at length on Iran once I finish finals but for now let me state this: Iran has a finite amount of time to come clean via nuclear weapons. Israel will not allow a nuclear Iran. Iran needs nukes or its 26 year old government may crumble. Nukes are a source of national pride because they will force Iran onto the world stage, 'the nuclear club,' while providing the ruling dictators with a fierce deterrent (insurance policy if you will).

Imagine Germany said Belgium should be wiped off the map. Would the world tolerate that, especially if the Germans were concealing a nuclear weapons program during the previous twenty years? What if a nation was threatening the United States in such a manner? If Israel attacks, it will be with our full support and that may make for a stickier situation in Iraq (politically).