Let me see if I get this: We are supposed to fear an assumed attack by weapons from yet-to-be-completed nuclear programs from countries whose nuclear belligerence is entirely unproven?

Throughout the Cold War, we lived in constant fear/awareness of mushroom clouds rising over our cities. The scene in the film Terminator 2, with a nuclear explosion over Los Angeles, merely rendered what was long the stuff of nightmares for anyone with a modicum of political awareness.

And they have already polluted us with hundreds of atmospheric, let alone other, nuclear tests. How many Chernobyl’s is that? The Western powers had (and still have) enough missiles to annihilate life on this planet. And most of Earth’s population had not even an indirect say in this.

And yet we are to fear Iran! (And Iraq, before that, propagated by the same people.)

Never under-estimate the power of propaganda. Sheer repetition always works. For years, MSM opened its reports about Iran’s supposed program with the question, “Does Iran have a nuclear weapons program?” They had nothing else, but repetition insinuated much. It worked for Iraq (“Does Iraq have WMDs?”), so it should work for Iran as well, they think.

Meanwhile, the Star Wars program got pushed, and no mention was made of US’s withdrawal from the ABM Treaty. Again, anyone who lived through those years, knows the significance of such treaties, and how hard they were to establish.