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Iran is no nuclear threat
Jim Stevens recently wrote a letter that you published, invoking maximum fear of Iran as a threat to world peace, presumably because of nuclear weapons capability in the hands of irrational mullahs.
He also argued to your readers that Iran’s military and alleged nuclear capability is a fundamental source of political instability in the world.
Stevens’ point of view is dangerous because it repeats the unsubstantiated “weapons of mass destruction” rationale for invading Iraq. How many lives and dollars have been lost over that lie? What kind of peace or security has it wrought?
The New Yorker just published an article, “Iran and the Bomb, How Real is the Nuclear Threat?” by Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize-winning, five-time-Polk-Award-recipient investigative journalist who uncovered the My Lai massacre and the Abu Ghraib scandal that refutes Stevens’ mis- or uninformed assertions regarding Iran’s capabilities and, of even greater importance, its intentions.
Are we unwilling or unable to remember the consequences of the “weapons of mass destruction” hoax played out on most of us barely eight years ago? I urge all of us to read Seymour Hersh’s article before getting on the next bandwagon.
Dave Hart
Davis
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