Apocalypse Now? Israel threatens Iran.
“ I love the smell of napalm in the morning” updated to 2011?
Apparently, according to Wiki, Iran’s Nuclear Programme was launched in the 1950’s with the help and support of the United States and Europe! Atoms for Peace, well it’s all gone a bit pear-shaped again, but that’s Realpolitik, nicht wahr?
THE possibility of nuclear conflict in the Middle East has evoked warm fuzzy memories among those who were kids during the Cold War.
As Israel threatened to destroy Iran with atomic sky-fire – probably triggering a war that would reduce Earth to a lifeless, blackened space-rock – millions of Britons wistfully recalled the golden years of global nuclear paranoia.
The rest of the article is here, but the above headlines give you a feel for the tone: you may find it offensive given the seriousness of the subject, but I didn’t.
I can’t help but feel that the people of Iran may be feeling a little nostalgic for the bad old days of the Shah, or democracy in its infancy is somewhat vulnerable.
A question: do we have incontrovertible evidence that Iran possesses a nuclear capability?
Boadicea's Chariot 
Well you will when the Jews start glowing in the dark! Then Brooklyn is going to get a tiny bit miffed.
My favourite movie of all time.
I have been considering my demise for some time but if we really have a sporting chance of a real Armageddon and a giant culling of mankind I think I’ll stick around for the entertainment value.
The trouble is that by the time we find out it may be too late.
Is the article intended to be funny?
I venture to suggest that anyone who thinks it is, was not old enough to understand the Cold War at the time.
Anyway, be that as it may, I didn’t agree with the “pre-emptive” strike into Iraq, indeed I don’t believe in any pre-emptive action. I idly ask – “Should the UN or NATO or Russia or China (or Israel) obliterate the USA, because they are known 100% to have nuclear weapons?”
Let Iran do what it likes within its borders. If it makes an attack on Israel, nuke it out of existence, lock, stock and barrel. But no pre-emption, thanks. 🙂
Mr Bear: as Atatürk once said “unless it is to save the life of the nation, war is murder”. He was on to something.
Apolocolype Now is also one of my favourites but I suspect for entirely different reasons, Tina. If you enjoy the utter insanity of war and the culling of mankind then you obviously didn’t understand the point of the film.
Boadicea.
True but when the police made a “pre-emptive strike” against EDL supporters, you quite rightly, in my opinion, thought this was wrong. The principle is pretty much the same.
Bearsy.
It is intended to be funny, but in the same way as A Modest Proposal; irony or satire, much like Apocalypse Now.
I agree with you on the pre-emptive strike business, I immediately thought about the Iraq invasion and the non-existent WMD.
Christopher.
Yes, war is murder, sometimes a necessary evil, but best avoided, I think.
It matters little who let rips first, when the instant sunshine bomb goes off it’s effects do not stop at borders.