If Iran gets nukes, given the short flight times for missiles in this rather cozy neighborhood, Israel then most go to a “hair-trigger” launch on warning footing. They can’t afford to waste any time “spinning up” their own nukes when a decision on whether or not to retaliate has to be made in less time than it takes to read this paragraph.

So, under these circumstances, if an Israeli radar operator so much as sneezes, and mistakes their spittle for incoming missiles, a regional cataclysm beyond historical experience will result, even if Iran does not in fact initiate it.

Anyhow, did you send any of this to the NYT? Of course they won’t publish it, but you should try anyway, and add a little jab about how their retirement accounts must have indeed benefited from a shot of Iranian petrodollars from printing that article. You can bet that this Lowther guy is on the Iranian payroll, just like Gwynne Dyer, and many others, I’m sure.

That is what will be inscribed on the tombstone of our civiilzation:

“Here lies what was once a great power that stood for great things. Then, everybody got so comfortable that this became the only thing that anybody stood for anymore. We were all for sale. We sold ourselves to our executionors. Our last meals were very tasty before we were led to the gallows.”