But I am le tired

[shinytoaster]

So, we're more worried about the country that's 10 years away from making a bomb and claims to be pursuing civilian nuclear energy ...

... over the one that just threatened to flat-out use the bomb ...

Iran?
or maybe ...
France?

[Poll #655678]

And we wonder why Iran calls us hypocritical. Here's a daring thought. Maybe nobody should be allowed them.

Comments

[moony]

FIRE ZE MISSILES!

Personally, I'm more concerned about the cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

[zorb]

I am reminded of folk's Iran-in-France's-body icon.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

I'm not quite sure what the question you're asking is. Is it "of which one am I more worried?"

Personally I am more worried that the tickyboxes run out.

[titanic-days.livejournal.com]

At an optimistic estimate, proven reserves of tickyboxes run to around 60bbl, only enough to supply all our LJ needs until the year 2040.

[breeamal.livejournal.com]

Wow, I hadn't heard that yet. That's fuckin scary. Thanks for posting it.

[saucy-wench.livejournal.com]

Me either. Must go watch the news.

[sophie10.livejournal.com]

Here's a daring thought. Maybe nobody should be allowed them.

I remember saying that when I was very young, possibly when I first became aware of nuclear weapons, everyone in the room just looked at me like I was an idiot. Because of course we need them, just in case 8-)

Il est fou...

[petulans.livejournal.com]

Oh, for fuck's sake, Chirac!

Okay, it may be that I only woke up a little while ago, but he really seems to have gone off of his rocker this time. I mean, beyond the obvious "umm... overreaction, much?" aspect unless someone somehow manages to set off a nuke/biological/chemical attack or causes a full-scale meltdown in a nuke plant (not that they can achieve criticality anyway, but something on that scale), it's just... crazy. I mean, a decent-sized terrorist organisation is almost by definition decentralised and thus not a very good target for a WMD. Aside from that, depending on just how nutty/ruthless a terrorist is, this actually sounds (at least to me) like an incentive to attack France, rather than a disincentive - come on, if you're looking to provoke a(n over)reaction with your strike which you can use to solidify support against the target nation, how much better reaction can you get than having them nuke some unsuspecting Islamic capital?

Somebody stop the world, I wanna get off!