Iran still dangerous

Letter writer Mike Puleston votes to nuke Israel

THE US is preparing to attack Iran (“US shifts focus in Iran from nuclear sites to key troops”, 2/10). It has been planning to do so for a long time but recently preparations have intensified. President Bush wants to get in one last hit before he goes. However, talk of “surgical strikes” is nonsense because thousands of ordinary Iranians would die. The repressive Iranian government would be strengthened by a US attack which would solidify popular support behind it. US aggression against Iran would make Iraq look like a sideshow, especially if Pakistan were pulled in. Let us hear John Howard and Kevin Rudd say—unequivocally—that they would condemn an attack on Iran and would not cooperate with the US in any way in this mad scheme. Mike Puleston Brunswick, Vic

A lot of what Mike says could be true but he omits one possible result of a surgical anti-nuclear strike against Iran and that is, Israel would continue to exist. The Iranian President doesn’t do ‘Diplomacy’ as us westerners understand it. He is more of a Mao disciple believing ‘Diplomacy comes from the barrel of a gun’ or missile, and while his statement that he would nuke Israel is still on the books then I don’t know what other options the civilized world has. Whatever the case, I can assure you that if Iran gets close to having a bomb Israel will strike; it won’t be telegraphed and they won’t cry over the ‘Peace at any Price’ brigade and their outcries. We will read about it in the morning press – done deal! Iran has lost the ability to turn Tel Aviv into a parking lot courtesy of the IDF I doubt if Mike’s thousands of ordinary Iranians would die, more like hundreds but whatever, it would be better than millions of dead in Tel Aviv.