Iran's nuclear program is "...getting by with a little help from [their] friends," which now include Turkey and Brazil, who will help Iran reprocess uranium.
Ralph Peters shouts "WARNING! WARNING! DANGER!" But is anyone in position of authority listening?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/nukes_gone_wild_e1DsERRbLf9qsRnyDadpwK
In response to this, today's message traffic from my friends consisted of the following comments:
For once, Ralph has hit the nail on the head - this administration is setting the stage for the nightmare proliferation scenario that has been hovering out there for decades. History may well judge this Obama's greatest failure.
Ralph nails Brazil and the vanity nukes. That country has had delusions of military grandeur for at least a century when they ordered three shiny new battleships from the Brits and only took delivery of two of them because those two bankrupted their treasury. The third was then sold to irony or ironies, the Ottoman Empire but then the Brits decided to keep it after the war started and she was commissioned as HMS Agincourt. It's also the same reason that Brazil insists on trying to maintain a 50+ year old French aircraft carrier that never leaves port and still wants to have nuclear powered submarines when for their purposes diesels are cheaper, quieter, and easier to use.
One point Thomas Friedman of the NYT has long made is that if Iran gets nukes, the Sunni Arab countries will be hot after them as well because while they are ultimately willing to live with a nuclear Jewish state in Israel, they are not willing to live with a nuclear Persian Shiite state in Iran.
Saudi Arabia and Egypt were caught in recent years working on nuclear weapons program. It made the papers a few years back, but needless to say is not getting any air time lately. Anyone want to bet that they didn't buy full nuke designs and technology from A Q Khan when he was still in business? I can almost guarantee an Arab nuke will follow a Persian nuke.
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