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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
Perhaps. But, I really don't think that it's quite as simple as that. There are countries that I do feel are stable, and responsible, enough to possess WMDs. Iran ain't one of 'em.
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What makes a country responsible enough to have these weapons? I mean if we (the US, and the rest of our nuclear family) are going to say yes to some and no to others, I think they have a right to know why we are threatening them and pushing them around. The first obvious answer is independant militant extreemist groups (often incorrectly refered to as terrorists). If a country has links to such groups, we present evidence of said connection, and say no way, Jose (or no way, Osama). The second seemingly obvious answer is a radical theocracy. Of course this is problematic, since India and America are having trouble seperating democracy from loose theocracy right now, and we both have a plethera of nukes. If we were to use that as a basis of rejection from the mile high mushroom cloud club, we risk getting called hypocrits (again) and would simply be ignored or circumvented. I could go on listing atributes and associations, but I know this won't happen.