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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Podhoretz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Podhoretz Podhoretz wrote in February 2002 that "There is no doubt that Sad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Podhoretz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Podhoretz Podhoretz wrote in February 2002 that "There is no doubt that Saddam already possesses large stores of chemical and biological weapons, and may ... be 'on the precipice of nuclear power.' ... Some urge that we ... concentrate on easier targets first. Others contend that the longer we wait, the more dangerous Saddam will grow. Yet whether or not Iraq becomes the second front in the war against terrorism, one thing is certain: there can be no victory in this war if it ends with Saddam Hussein still in power."

mikeash 11y ago
I wonder how a person like this can keep on pontificating after being proven so unbelievably wrong. You'd think they would retreat into the woods and become a hermit out of shame, or something.
peejaybee 11y ago
Exactly. It is not clear to me why Podhoretz should be taken seriously by anyone who is not looking for a pretext for another Middle Eastern war.
obrero 11y ago
Also, the US nuclear power industry was bragging about how Iran was developing as a nuclear power in the 1970s ( https://www.pinterest.com/pin/2674080998749170/ https://www.pinterest.com/pin/2674080998749170/ ). You could say the US thinks the current Iranian leadership is too religiously zealous. But the US (and UK) overthrew Iran's secular parliament in 1953 and installed a dictator by bankrolling the ayatollahs, such as Mohammad Behbahani ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta... ). We here talk of a danger to Israel...what about a danger to the Iranians, who have lived there for a long time and now have to contend with millions of Jews who moved into the region in the past decades from Russia and Brooklyn, displacing Palestinians. Who are nuclear armed themselves - but bringing that into the discussions of a peace plan is off the table apparently - Jews from Brooklyn new to the Middle East can have the bomb, Iranians who have been there for thousands of years are restricted even in having nuclear power. Podhoretz is right about one thing - the situation will not hold forever. When it changes, it will probably not be in a manner he will be happy with.

mikeash 11y ago

I wonder how a person like this can keep on pontificating after being proven so unbelievably wrong. You'd think they would retreat into the woods and become a hermit out of shame, or something.

peejaybee 11y ago

Exactly. It is not clear to me why Podhoretz should be taken seriously by anyone who is not looking for a pretext for another Middle Eastern war.

obrero 11y ago

Also, the US nuclear power industry was bragging about how Iran was developing as a nuclear power in the 1970s ( https://www.pinterest.com/pin/2674080998749170/ https://www.pinterest.com/pin/2674080998749170/ ). You could say the US thinks the current Iranian leadership is too religiously zealous. But the US (and UK) overthrew Iran's secular parliament in 1953 and installed a dictator by bankrolling the ayatollahs, such as Mohammad Behbahani ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta... ). We here talk of a danger to Israel...what about a danger to the Iranians, who have lived there for a long time and now have to contend with millions of Jews who moved into the region in the past decades from Russia and Brooklyn, displacing Palestinians. Who are nuclear armed themselves - but bringing that into the discussions of a peace plan is off the table apparently - Jews from Brooklyn new to the Middle East can have the bomb, Iranians who have been there for thousands of years are restricted even in having nuclear power. Podhoretz is right about one thing - the situation will not hold forever. When it changes, it will probably not be in a manner he will be happy with.