Iran's Bomb

If I were running a medium sized country and wanted to develop nuclear weapons, I would do it surreptitiously. I would not provide information about my progress. And I would especially not brag about my achievements until I had a supply of weapons.

So why is Iran crowing about its progress?

From all that we know, Iran has the intention of producing nuclear weapons. It has stated its intention of wiping Israel off the map; presumably with the assistance of such weapons. A large number of countries, not just the United States, have demanded that Iran stop its development of such weapons. It would seem that the best course the Iranian government could take would be to deny its intentions of producing weapons while producing these weapons. Yet they appear to be making an effort to publicize their efforts and wiping the world’s eye with their progress.

Why?

The reasons for this are open to debate, but here is a possible scenario. The “Western world” is largely disarmed both militarily and most especially morally against an Islamofacist onslaught. Witness the reaction in Europe and the US to the 12 cartoons and the efforts in Europe to ban speech advocating resistance to Islamic encroachments. Witness Yale’s decision to accept the propaganda minister of Al Qaeda as a student. Witness the description of the killers of school children as “insurgents” in the Western media.

Suppose that what the mullahs of Iran want is the removal of Israel from the Middle East and the capitulation of Europe to the most intolerant version of Islam. Knowing that they will be threatened with nothing more dangerous than wind from the UN, why not make yourself to be a budding nuclear power, even before you are one, and get the UN and the Europeans to do your dirty work for you.

Be threatening enough and you may be able to get the Europeans, who have already given a green light to open anti-Semitism, to help move the Jews out of Israel. And, if you are a nuclear power, you can begin to negotiate the increased immigration of Islamofacists into Europe.

If this keeps Europe from taking a nuclear strike, what are the chances that Europe – and the Left in the United States – won’t take that deal?

If this looks far fetched, let me ask you, at what point in this process, would the West be willing to fight and die?