Is this a joke? I'm serious. Is this a joke? The reason Iran and north Korea are such a threat is that their people have zero power, they have nut job dictators that just might be crazy enough and in the case of Iran they are somewhat driven by a religion that states their very purpose in life is to kill infidels (for those keeping score at home, that's us). The Russians had their problems but the fact was they had too many people that would have to ok such an action and they have always had their security and beat interest at heart. They're crazy but not that crazy. Any of the above, however, are fully capable of handing a small nuke to some extremist and sneaking it into the country. No one cares until it's their building of work at the epicenter. There is no reason to seek nukes except to threaten us and our allies and god forbid possibly use them. The fact that both regimes keep pushing to develop them regardless of our warnings should at least make you alarmed. I know several Iranians. The people aren't the enemy, nut job dictator an lunatic religious fanatics are.

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No, I do not. I think they desire a change in leadership in Israel. Just like we do in NK, Iran, Venezuela, Libya (this month anyway), and so on and so on. 'Destruction' is again, your word.

But again, we're back to using rhetoric as a basis for killing a whole shit-load of people in another foreign nation.

So setting rhetoric aside.... again, can anyone explain to me what the real threat of Iran is?