[BRIEF NOTE] Bush must not nuke Iran
Apr. 9th, 2006 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldSeymour Hersh's recent article in The New Yorker, "The Iran Plans", is exceptionally disturbing.
Hersh goes on to describe the Bush Administration's intent to insert tactical nuclear weapons into the campaign in attacks against Iran's nuclear infrastructure, the nuclear attacks being only part of a broader air strike aimed against Iran's military and scientific infrastructure, this air strike (in turn) being part of an effort to dismantle the Iranian nation-state.
Again, I say that this must not happen.
One former defense official, who still deals with sensitive issues for the Bush Administration, told me that the military planning was premised on a belief that "a sustained bombing campaign in Iran will humiliate the religious leadership and lead the public to rise up and overthrow the government." He added, "I was shocked when I heard it, and asked myself, ‘What are they smoking?’"
Hersh goes on to describe the Bush Administration's intent to insert tactical nuclear weapons into the campaign in attacks against Iran's nuclear infrastructure, the nuclear attacks being only part of a broader air strike aimed against Iran's military and scientific infrastructure, this air strike (in turn) being part of an effort to dismantle the Iranian nation-state.
Again, I say that this must not happen.
