Quote from Exodus:
If Iran gets the bomb the markets will be at 5000 by this time next year because it's all over folks and life as we know it will come to a stop because they will use it you can be sure of that.
Life as we know it will be over??? I seriously doubt it. Possible, but I doubt it.
If they got the bomb, the ultimate target is lower manhatten. If they could deliver the bomb there and detonate, it would really suck to be in a few miles of the city. That would change life as we know it.
The problems are, how do they build this bomb? If they do, it will probably be small, even though a small nuke could really mess up the wall st area, business would continue in Jersey city. How do you deliver this bomb? They probably cannot get close enough to deliver it by missile, so it would have to be smuggled in and driven. Thats a lot harder than you would think. A suitcase bomb, while pretty scary, is very complicated and probably not gonna happen for Iran.
Lets say it does happen. One bomb messes up NYC. Since we have the most advanced military on the planet, and since we spent more in the last few years on defense than the rest of the planet COMBINED, we will wipe them out. Knock them back to the stone age. Which for them only puts them about a week and half back.
Then that also opens a huge can of worms for the rest of the planet. Because now we have carte blanche to use a well deserved right of pre-emptive attacks on anyone we choose. I know that the other large govts do not want that.
Do you really need a nuke to destroy a place? Not really. A dirty bomb in NYC has the same effect. Not as much damage, but the place is rendered unihabitable. Not as much gore and destruction, but you pretty much wiped the area out.
Is Iran really that close to getting nukes? Probably not. If they were, we would have done something, or allowed Israel to do it so we don't look like the bad guys. I think they want nukes, and are probably trying to build them, but in reality they are probably not that close.
I think we are just testing the waters. Lets issue press releases that they are close and see if public support gives us enough to justify going to war. If the people are scared enough, they will let us go, if not, we try again next year to see if they are ready to support going to war.
If I was the leader of Iran and had the bomb, would I talk trash about wiping Israel off the map if that was my plan? Probably not, I would probably just do it. If I did not have the bomb and was not even close to getting it, would I talk trash about Israel to look like a tough guy to the other arab nations and the rest of the world? Probably.
But thats just my opinion and I could be totally wrong.
